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> “want a status board” budget: companies would buy a $3,000 display for our $10 app. I do this irrational stuff all the time. $15 for a wedge of cheese I have
by rdtsc 10y ago
> “want a status board” budget: companies would buy a $3,000 display for our $10 app.
I do this irrational stuff all the time. $15 for a wedge of cheese I haven't tried before - yap totally fine. A $2.59 app - hmm, yeah, not sure, think about for 5 minutes, read reviews, seems expensive, what if I don't like it, pass...
I know it is ridiculous and I see me doing it, but it still happens.
- forrestthewoods 10y agoGiven how many terrible $3 apps I've wasted money on the $15 cheese is probably a better ROI.
- pawadu 10y agoWas about to write the same thing! I have paid significantly more than $3 for something that turned out to be garbage (side note: Humble Bundle team, you gave charity a bad name). Haven't encountered anything similar while buying cheese.
- lgas 10y agoYou don't have a device in your pocket that will vend you an endless stream of cheese wedges 24 hours a day though... That gives me an idea for a startup.
- rdtsc 10y agoI will invest in that!
- bobwaycott 10y agoShut up and take my money!
- copperx 10y agoThat part of the post-mortem is inaccurate. I was looking recently for a solution to display a status board for a small business on an HDTV. 40" TVs can be found for $180 (you don't have to spend $3000 to have something useful), a mount is $20, and the app is $10. You've got most of the components for $210, but then you have to stomach the $200-400 to buy an iPad which will sit unused taped behind the TV just to display the status board. Not to mention you have to secure it to prevent theft if the TV is on a high traffic area. The idea that you have to sacrifice an iPad doesn't feel right to me, even though you could get an Apple TV for roughly the same price (< $150), but the Apple TV would provide more functionality (e.g., the Apple TV could be used as an impromptu projector through AirPlay). They chose the wrong platform for the app. They should have developed it for the Apple TV.
- voltagex_ 10y agohttps://panic.com/blog/the-future-of-status-board/#comment-627326 https://panic.com/blog/the-future-of-status-board/#comment-6... is why it wasn't ported to Apple TV.
- CameronBanga 10y agoApple TV doesn't support WebKit, which I bet is pretty important in Status Board.
- rbritton 10y agoIt could be ported if the potential revenue was high enough, even if it meant rewriting the functionality that used WebKit to use something else. Instead, I think it was more likely the state of the App Stores themselves. The tvOS App Store market is even worse off than the macOS one, and I doubt they would have recovered even a small percentage of the cost of development had they chosen to pursue it.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoThey should've sold HDMI dongles (think Chromecast or Roku), with the app baked in, for ~$100. Its easy to monday morning quarterback though; This idea could've failed as well.
- hrktb 10y agoBasically a Raspberry Pi zero ?
- toomuchtodo 10y agoBasically, but turnkey. Just like I'd pay twice as much for a Chromecast before I'd ever consider spending a moment of time on a Raspberry Pi.
- chei0iaV 10y agoSo a Raspberry Pi in a case with a pre-inserted sdcard running the app? :)
- Kenji 10y agoWell, at least, if the cheese is bad, it still can't compromise your machine :)
- mibbiting 10y agoDifference is though that there's millions of free apps floating around. There aren't millions of free wedges of cheese. To a lot of people, paying for software is still a pretty weird concept, and evaluating the "worth" of software is quite hard when there is so much free software around.