On: Verified Extortion

[mattmaroon]

Are you joking? The top Facebook apps make more in a month than the top iPhone apps make in a lifetime. Even mid level apps, the sort that would never make the top 25 on iTunes, make more in a year than a top 10 paid app on iTunes does.

Try Googling for Zynga Revenues. The Facebook platform is orders of magnitude more profitable than iPhone.

Don't mistake buzz for profitability.

[blader → mattmaroon]

Matt, the more people think that Facebook apps don't make any money, the happier I think we'll both be. =)

[mattmaroon → blader]

Ha, true. If it weren't broadly available information that you almost had to close your eyes to miss I'd never mention it.

[coglethorpe → mattmaroon]

> Zynga

Don't get me started on my Mafia Wars addiction.

[elai → coglethorpe]

The game that can be (and is) played by a script.

[teej → elai]

World of Warcraft can also be played by a script. That hasn't hurt it's profitability or popularity.

[mattmaroon → teej]

Does World of Warcraft still make money? I thought everyone was on the iPhone all day now ;)

[run4yourlives → coglethorpe]

Do you pay for that crap though?

[pistoriusp → mattmaroon]

Do you have data that you could use to backup your post?

[blader → pistoriusp]

http://www.google.com/search?q=zynga+revenues

[buggy_code → mattmaroon]

Thanks for the tip.

I can't up vote you enough. Almost tempted to create new HN accounts just to up vote you.

[buggy_code → buggy_code]

Why all the downvotes? (I don't mind downvoted, just curious about an explaination).

[icey → buggy_code]

Whenever I get downvotes, I stop to consider whether or not my comment has added to the conversation. If I think it has, and I can't figure out why I got downvoted, I just move on.

Of course now I re-read all my comments right after I post them, so I tend to delete quite a few before voting happens either way.

[JimmyL → buggy_code]

I would guess for the notion of creating another HN account to sockpuppet/additionally up-rate someone.