I'm still a student but when I was much poorer and starving I raided a Dunkin Doughnuts dumpster and ended up with an industrial sized trashbag of every doughnut they made sitting in my living room for 3 days, until me and my roommates got sick of eating nothing but doughnuts and threw them out proper.
Inevitably every dev that comments for an article on how the App Store is flawed/overhyped falls into one of two categories:
1. Those that relied on merely having their app in the app store to generate purchases.
2. Those that spent far too long and far too much developing an app then fell into trap #1.