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    What's up with Flappy Birds?

    Has anyone actually sold an iPhone w/ Flappy birds for a significant amount? I've seen all the big money bids on eBay are fake or eBay has taken them down.

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    Pretty dumb. I'm sure if you have a jailbroken phone, you can get it free anyway
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    man this guy is a genius if he turns around and sells it to facebook or some shit, free app to multimillionaire over night.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lewfather View Post
    man this guy is a genius if he turns around and sells it to facebook or some shit, free app to multimillionaire over night.
    I thought he was and is making 50k a day in ads?

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    Quote Originally Posted by PLOL View Post
    Pretty dumb. I'm sure if you have a jailbroken phone, you can get it free anyway


    but common folk don't jailbreak

    This is part of the reason why I like android so much, no need to jailbreak just download the apk and cache and boom, you have the game on your big ass display. But even as easy as that is, regular folk won't do it.

    That's why even though you could jailbreak a phone or download it freely with android that this game STILL is sellable, even though it was at a time readily available for free on the app and play store.

    This kid can turn around at any moment and pick off the highest bidding company to sell the rights too and make millions and the company buying it also make millions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Goodpoop View Post
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    man this guy is a genius if he turns around and sells it to facebook or some shit, free app to multimillionaire over night.
    I thought he was and is making 50k a day in ads?
    He was. And now he's making $0/day in ads.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PLOL View Post
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    I thought he was and is making 50k a day in ads?
    He was. And now he's making $0/day in ads.
    nope. those 50M downloads are still making him tons of cash.

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    Quote Originally Posted by monsterj View Post
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    He was. And now he's making $0/day in ads.
    nope. those 50M downloads are still making him tons of cash.
    Oh, true. Story still doesn't add up tho
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    How is this not transparent marketing? Go look up scarcity you rubes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 4Dragons View Post
    How is this not transparent marketing? Go look up scarcity you rubes.
    How is 50m scarcity?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Goodpoop View Post
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    How is this not transparent marketing? Go look up scarcity you rubes.
    How is 50m scarcity?
    Not too bright are you? It's in the taking away of the thing so when it comes back it blows up even bigger. I guess in a thread where I had to explain the first thing, I should have expected to explain the explanation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 4Dragons View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Goodpoop View Post

    How is 50m scarcity?
    Not too bright are you? It's in the taking away of the thing so when it comes back it blows up even bigger. I guess in a thread where I had to explain the first thing, I should have expected to explain the explanation.
    Exactly this. Make people think it's gone forever so they'll want it more. Where have I seen that before?


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    "Flappy Bird" was originally released for the iPhone in May but didn't become the top free iPhone app until mid-January, following a surge in popularity that seems to have kicked off in early December. Observers have voiced several unproven theories about the game's sudden success, including the use of bots to get it on Top 10 lists artificially, organic enthusiasm on social media and a surge in amusing user reviews in the Apple App and Google Play stores.
    I think I believe the conspiracy theories. People are such sheep and will like something if everyone else likes it, even if it sucks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 4Dragons View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Goodpoop View Post

    How is 50m scarcity?
    Not too bright are you? It's in the taking away of the thing so when it comes back it blows up even bigger. I guess in a thread where I had to explain the first thing, I should have expected to explain the explanation.
    Anything with 50,000,000 is not scarce. Why are you such an asshole?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Goodpoop View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by 4Dragons View Post

    Not too bright are you? It's in the taking away of the thing so when it comes back it blows up even bigger. I guess in a thread where I had to explain the first thing, I should have expected to explain the explanation.
    Anything with 50,000,000 is not scarce. Why are you such an asshole?
    Because you are so dense. You keep saying that it's 50m of something that has now been completely taken away and the only way you can get it is to go buy someones phone with it on there already. It's not the 50m that are out there, its the other 50m that want it now that can't get it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 4Dragons View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Goodpoop View Post

    Anything with 50,000,000 is not scarce. Why are you such an asshole?
    Because you are so dense. You keep saying that it's 50m of something that has now been completely taken away and the only way you can get it is to go buy someones phone with it on there already. It's not the 50m that are out there, its the other 50m that want it now that can't get it.
    So back to the original question how many do you think have really been bought and at what price?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Goodpoop View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by 4Dragons View Post

    Because you are so dense. You keep saying that it's 50m of something that has now been completely taken away and the only way you can get it is to go buy someones phone with it on there already. It's not the 50m that are out there, its the other 50m that want it now that can't get it.
    So back to the original question how many do you think have really been bought and at what price?
    The general business model of videogame apps is to offer a free version with ads and a paid version that has no ads, but may have paid 'unlocks' in the game to help the player through the game. So your answer is not an easy one. I've never played it myself, but have the apk file here so I may put it on the phone sometime in the future to get a better idea of it. General rule of thumb of paid to free apps is around 5-10% conversion, but again that leaves ad revenue, which varies depending on which ad vendor you sign up with. But when they say 50k downloads a day, that does not equal $50k per day.

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