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I'm in game dev. Went to our CEO in 2004 and asked for a small 3 man team to do a prototype for a physics based mobile game. The answer: "There's just no money in mobile games"
2009 Rovio released Angry Birds.
The Angry Birds franchise has generated an estimated $9.54 billion. Which is pretty good, since there's no money in mobile.