This, a hundred times. An insane amount of work has gone into making something like Ableton Live. The general idea that applications should cost something in th

This, a hundred times. An insane amount of work has gone into making something like Ableton Live. The general idea that applications should cost something in the range of 2 - 30 usd is ridiculous, when you compare it to any real world physical examples. For example any instrument costs much more than that, and the same time could have gone into developing the software and building the instrument. Or heck, any handbag or fashion item can cost a ton of money, and people are ready to buy them, but when software actually costs something close to real value produced by that software, people get pissed these days. I blame the iOS/Android markets that have created a biased and untruthful image for the costs of developing software. You can't expect to make a living from developing software that costs 1.99/2.99/9.99 unless you sell a ton of those, and most never do, but this market has effectively changed the mindset for normal consumers to get things either free or for a price of three cups of coffee.