Chapter 11Making Money from Apps

Now that you have published your app, it would be easy to think that the hardest part of your journey is completed. You’ve scrutinized every user interaction and fine-tuned the performance. Congratulations would seem to be in order, right?

Except now you have to figure out how to make money from it.

Mobile software engineers are in a unique position in today’s market. You are not giving users a mobile alternative to a Web service. The desire is to have the native application be the first choice for users. To give users an alternative to current software solutions, you have to do your homework to make your app known to prospective users and price it accordingly.

Selling Apps

Figure 11.1: With so many revenue ...

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