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Apple now lets you preorder apps in the App Store
- zaphirplane 9y agoGiving the app cloner plenty of time to clone your app. bet they even release the app before you do
- singularity2001 9y agothat's a bittersweet side effect but only works if the competition can see the number of downloads.
- mankash666 9y agoOne can enable Kickstarter like stretch goals using this
- thisisit 9y ago> Developers can offer both free and paid preorders. If the price changes during the preorder period, customers will be charged whichever is lower: the price they preordered it at, or the price at launch. I wonder what happens if the app was free on pre-order but changes to paid at launch. Will the "whichever is lower" still apply? As noted in the article, Google does offer a pre-register notification option. From an app developer perspective, has that helped in driving some traffic towards the app? and it seems Apple thinks downloads are a better option than just notifying.
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- ksec 9y ago>I wonder what happens if the app was free on pre-order but changes to paid at launch. Will the "whichever is lower" still apply? Yes. Actually I rather like this option of which ever is lower, it gives a MacHeist like event where you could have the more signup / buyers, the cheaper it is.
- kalleboo 9y agoEveryone keeps asking for a "try-before-you-buy" model, Apple gives us a "buy-before-you-try" option...
- singularity2001 9y agofunny but I still love the feature, if only to gauge interest.
- heartbreak 9y agoDidn’t this begin with Mario Run? I had it preordered for a few weeks and Apple notified me when Nintendo finally published it. I’m surprised there’s no mention of this in the article.
- marpstar 9y agothat was only a "notify me" sign-up, not an actual pre-order.
- unixhero 9y agoLol... "buy software'