First of all a correction, it is supposedly 100 m downloads now at the AppStore. I finally got time to check out the facts from the latest Apple hoopla. So 100 m downloads in 60 days. Pretty strong. But my follow-up questions on who really makes money there and what the future brings are still valid and I would love some answers. In the meantime take your time to read Michael Mace’s great post on the ecosystem of selling apps to mobile consumers. Very good reading – and make sure you follow that checklist at the end.

For this very matter we have been very slow in developing any apps over at Acemob. We focus mainly on browser based services to be able to offer the right balance of great experience and a viable model for us. Being bootstrapped we have to earn the money we want to spend, and we have rents to pay and families to feed. But I would love to release cool apps as well but that takes some guts these days. If there was more transparency and clarity around the AppStore process and average cost to launch something there it would help. I agree with Michael as well that a proper ecosystem would probably give a huge boost to invention as well.

Happy Friday all!