By analyzing what your competitors are doing well (and not so well), you can improve on their successes, and ultimately grow your app revenue much more quickly. 

There are large teams working behind-the-scenes on the top apps. They spend substantial time and resources optimizing their onboarding experiences, running A/B testing, and evaluating their pricing offers and feature sets. It’s worth examining what they are doing and using it as a guidance for your app. This is how you leverage the experience of large and successful apps.

As Steve Jobs famously said in 1996, “Picasso had a saying — ‘good artists copy; great artists steal’ — and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. 

So even such visionaries and product leaders build their products on top of existing solutions, not from scratch. There is a lesson there.