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		wallflower on March 7, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FYI: Last time someone made a $100MM fund to boost... Put it this way: Would you rather be the proud owner of an iTunes-marquee-featured Top 50 (by sales, with 70% going into your bank account) iPhone application or a top 50 Facebook app (where your revenues are eaten by bandwidth and server hosting costs)?

comatose_kid on March 7, 2008 [–]

And the barriers to entry are lower for Facebook apps. Comparatively fewer people know Objective C and the Cocoa frameworks.

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