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Right now 17 of the top 20 grossing iPhone apps are freemium. Are you suggesting that these apps are only able to succeed because of accidental purchases?


I would argue they are succeeding due to greed and ignorance, the likes of which will necessarily cause a crash and hopefully subsequent rebirth of true gaming.


The consequences will be more widely felt than that. Right now mobile gaming pretty much is the commercial mobile app market. When that implodes it's going to take the rest of the app market with it, at least temporarily.




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