Not really an Android article, for today, but still of interest. Newsweek trying to pull apart the myth of the millionaire iPhone app developer, talking to a few indies about how the app store is treating them. The story has an obvious message, and is slanted towards that message, but I don’t think the message is incorrect. There absolutely has been a race to the bottom on pricing - which has hit the Android market as well - and a huge flood of apps which threaten to overwhelm anything but the most popular apps. There’s a perception that if you’re in the top X% (where X is a very small number), you’ll shift a lot of apps, and if you can’t break that barrier you’ll never hit it big. There’s also an interesting side comment about big companies shipping apps for free, because they can absorb the development costs and make it up elsewhere, vs. indie devs trying to make a living (or at least a revenue stream) directly from their software. There are lessons here for Android…