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Why no one will buy your iPhone App idea

You have a great iPhone idea, and you know it will make millions!  All you need is for someone to take your idea and develop it, while you sit back and wait for the end result. Then you can sell your app and make some easy money, right?

Forget that right now, it's not going to happen.
No one is going to write an app with you if all you have to contribute is an idea!

Pretend for a moment that you have a great idea for a book, not an app. How would you go about getting it written and published? Would you go to a forum and advertise looking for an author to write it for you? No, you would have to get off your butt and write it yourself. I have heard that a friend of Frank Herbert (author of Dune) asked Herbert to author the friend's idea and split the profits 50/50. Herbert refused, even though the guy was a good friend -- Herbert's reply was basically that ideas are easy; the writing is the hard part. Think about it for a minute -- would YOU want to have a friend come up to you, tell you a few sentences, then have you spend months hunched over a keyboard turning his few sentences into the Great American Novel? I doubt it. If you /did/ spend months writing that book, would you want to give half of the money to that guy? I don't think so.

Now pretend for a moment that you have a great idea for a movie, not a game. How would you go about getting it made into a movie? You would have to begin by becoming a movie industry professional, get several movies under your belt, become a producer or studio executive, and off you go! That's the "Do It From The Inside". There's also the "Do It Yourself" route: spend a lot of money (tens of thousands at the cheapest), write and direct it yourself, with the help of actors and technicians you hire. The end result may never get into theaters everywhere but could well prove your worth to a real studio. Either way, by the time you're done, you're in the movie biz. And you earned it by hard work, not by waving your arms for a few minutes in front of a cigar smoker who then throws wads of cash at you -- it doesn't work that way.

Okay, enough pretending. Your idea is not for a novel or a movie -- it's for a app. How do you go about getting it made?
First step: write the app design yourself.
Second Step: Develop the app yourself or pay someone else to develop the app for you.
That is all it takes!

[sloperama]