I hadn’t seen this article before and it was authored back in May of 2009. It’s a sobering perspective on the hype surrounding the app store and the notion that application developers can become a millionaire success story overnight. Written by a “successful” (used loosely)* iPhone app developer, the piece details just how difficult and improbable it is for you to get rich writting mobile phone apps. If you are thinking about getting into this racket, this is definitely worth a read.

http://www.stromcode.com/2009/05/24/the-incredible-app-store-hype/

* actually, his apps are really pretty popular so he is, in fact, successful by iPhone App Store standards, just not by Wall Street standards as his article demonstrates.