Paul Ardeleanu

"The reality is the gold rush days of the App Store are long over ? that?s not to say there isn?t loads of gold still locked up in the hills, it?s just all the easy gold deposits have been scoured and panned for and found. The market has matured, and App Store customers? tastes and demands have grown more sophisticated. Success stories these days tend to be of hard earned fortunes and corporate bought victories instead of the parade of indie lottery-winner stories we heard again and again during the App Store?s early days."

A great blog post from Amir Khella, creator of Keynotopia.

"They didn?t win because their idea was significantly better or more functional than other teams? ideas. There were many great ideas that weekend. But when other teams were focusing their limited time on implementation detail, that team stayed focused on high level aspects of their ideas, and spent more time hacking it and less time coding.

They weren?t coders, but they were hackers. And that ended up working great for them!"

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Have you ever feel that the world is slowly sliding from you and you get to look at it from afar. You get to see it as a distant "thing", a far-away entity that doesn't include you.