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People won't pay 99 cents for an app because it's nearly impossible to evaluate it's quality from the beginning.
by trophycase 9y ago
People won't pay 99 cents for an app because it's nearly impossible to evaluate it's quality from the beginning.
- BoorishBears 9y agoThe problem doesn’t go away for other types of content and that reasoning is often repeated but not supported by other markets. There are apps that had thousands of downloads and great reviews that failed because of peoples in unwillingness to pay for them. How will you know you’re going to like a news story before you pay to read it? The metrics you have are the same as any other type of content, word of mouth, reviews, past performance of the content creator. People will spend 10$ on a movie ticket when critics and reviewers are split on if it’s a good movie. They’ll spend 20$ to try a new dish they might not like on the recommendation of a single person, even an impartial waiter. But they don’t value apps so they don’t pay for them. People will go to app developers with their brilliant idea and act shocked when they get a 5 figure estimate because they figure app development is a dime a dozen. Likewise I doubt many people appreciate the true cost of the content they consume.