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The most reliable way to make money during the gold rush came from selling shovels.

• wmf 18y ago
  What's the analog here? XCode is free. What other complements to iPhone development can make money? In the past I suggested that $200/hour contract iPhone programming might be more lucrative than entrepreneurial app development, but that doesn't quite fit the shovel analogy.
  • gcheong 18y ago
    Maybe something that allows you to cross-deploy your app to a variety of mobile os's (adroid, iphone, etc) from the same code base?
• flashgordon 18y ago
  yeah but in this case the shovels are being given for free (the SDK)... so that is out of the equation...
• patio11 18y ago
  Yes, but that was because nobody could institute a 30% tax on all sales of gold. :)
• blasdel 18y ago
  The well-known indie mac app icon designers have more work than they can possibly do. They're mining the miners, so to speak.