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Can relate. I have an Android phone and I will never pay for an app. There are usually free alternatives for everything on F-droid. And I'm tech savvy enough to

• scarface74 8y ago
  I don’t agree with piracy of apps. Developers should get paid. But looking through my apps on my iOS devices, I’ve only paid for three apps - a calculator app and one game to remove ads and Infinity Blade back in 2010-2011. I do pay for services that have an iOS app but they are not just iOS apps. That includes Office365, Evernote, DirecTVNow, Hulu, Netflix (not really, its free with T-mobile), Apple Music, and so guess I could include various streaming apps that I can use via my DirecTV login. I would have paid for Overcast to support Marco, but he started his own podcast display ad network and he monetizes that way. I usually pay to turn off ads on apps I use frequently but I find topic relevant podcast ads so relevant, I consider the ads to be a feature. I’ve always said it was a fool’s errand trying to make money on $0.99 downloads. Either create a service that generates reoccurring revenue or develop apps for B2B deployments where a company is willing to pay a lot of money for custom deployments. That’s where I made money working for companies doing mobile development.