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What are you buying for iOS and In-App? I've only spent maybe $100 in total on iOS apps, across a good five years I think my only MacOS app expenditure was par

by setr 8y ago

What are you buying for iOS and In-App? I've only spent maybe $100 in total on iOS apps, across a good five years I think my only MacOS app expenditure was parallel and daisy disk. My Apple costs is almost purely hardware

joshstrange 8y ago
I'm not going to lie, I'm not proud of my IAP total. I am perfectly fine with purchasing level packs in games or full unlocks in apps but about half of that IAP was shit like gems/coins/etc that I spent on various games before I got that under control. As for iOS apps I have a couple of $20-$30 apps that really ratcheted up the total but I test out a lot of apps/games and while that number is large we are talking about ~$100/yr on apps which I am personally OK with. If you would like I could get more specific on which apps/games.
- setr 8y ago
  Sure; I’m mostly fine with ponying up... my biggest issue is I don’t see much out there even worth paying (especially with my macbook; most things seem to have an equivalent or better OSS alternative, especially if you’re not constrained to the gui [where OSS is usually ugly as sin]). Even in games, the only mobile game I’ve ever thought to pick up was King of Dragon Pass, and that was just because I already knew it’d work well on a phone As long as that budget isn’t comprised of a single photoshop license, I’m interested to know what you’ve thought was worth grabbing.
  - joshstrange 8y ago
    Here are some quick stats I spit out: Paid vs Free apps: Mac: 57 Paid vs 33 Free iOS: 310 Paid vs 227 Free Stats: ╔══════════╤═══════╤════════╤═══════╤═════════════════╗ ║ Platform │ Mean │ Median │ Mode │ Range ║ ╟──────────┼───────┼────────┼───────┼─────────────────╢ ║ Mac │ $9.83 │ $4.99 │ $4.99 │ $0.99 -> $59.99 ║ ╟──────────┼───────┼────────┼───────┼─────────────────╢ ║ iOS │ $3.51 │ $2.99 │ $0.99 │ $0.99 -> $59.99 ║ ╚══════════╧═══════╧════════╧═══════╧═════════════════╝ I need to clean up my output for "By Seller" because right now it looks like this: Totals By Seller: Apple Inc.: $493.05 (iOS Apps: $21.6, Mac Apps: $70.96) Supercell Oy: $252.7 (IAP: $252.7) Evernote: $147.96 (Subscriptions: $147.96) Panic, Inc.: $87.95 (iOS Apps: $37.96, Mac Apps: $49.99) Hindsight Labs LLC: $67.94 (iOS Apps: $17.96, Mac Apps: $49.98) Assembla, Inc.: $59.99 (Mac Apps: $59.99) American Honda Motor Co., Inc (Acura): $59.99 (iOS Apps: $59.99) Strong Fitness Ltd.: $54.89 (Subscriptions: $54.89) ... Which is not super useful unless you know that name of the company behind the app. I need to re-write my code to at least put a list of the app names at the end or something. For reference, in order the apps are: Apple Inc = Mac OS's Supercell Oy = Clash Royale (Not proud of this number at all) Evernote = Evernote (duh) Panic, Inc = iOS: Prompt, Prompt 2, Coda, Transmit, Status Board | Mac: Coda 2 (I own most all their mac apps as well but didn't buy through the store) Hindsight Labs LLC = Paprika 2 and 3 (for iPad/iPhone/Mac) (recipe app, hands down the best one out there, trust me) Assembla, Inc = Cornerstone (svn program) American Honda Motor Co., Inc = Acura Link (WASTE OF MONEY, I should have fought this charge) Strong Fitness Ltd = Strong (iOS Workout tracker, I think it was like $5-$6/mo) I need to also have my code print out top purchases by price (ignoring seller). I can pull out more if you would like. Edit: As you can tell the Apple Inc line is wrong, it looks like it's not pulling in the "special" categories they created for iCloud stuff, I'll fix that later.

by setr 8y ago

joshstrange 8y ago

I'm not going to lie, I'm not proud of my IAP total. I am perfectly fine with purchasing level packs in games or full unlocks in apps but about half of that IAP was shit like gems/coins/etc that I spent on various games before I got that under control. As for iOS apps I have a couple of $20-$30 apps that really ratcheted up the total but I test out a lot of apps/games and while that number is large we are talking about ~$100/yr on apps which I am personally OK with. If you would like I could get more specific on which apps/games.

setr 8y ago
Sure; I’m mostly fine with ponying up... my biggest issue is I don’t see much out there even worth paying (especially with my macbook; most things seem to have an equivalent or better OSS alternative, especially if you’re not constrained to the gui [where OSS is usually ugly as sin]). Even in games, the only mobile game I’ve ever thought to pick up was King of Dragon Pass, and that was just because I already knew it’d work well on a phone As long as that budget isn’t comprised of a single photoshop license, I’m interested to know what you’ve thought was worth grabbing.
- joshstrange 8y ago
  Here are some quick stats I spit out: Paid vs Free apps: Mac: 57 Paid vs 33 Free iOS: 310 Paid vs 227 Free Stats: ╔══════════╤═══════╤════════╤═══════╤═════════════════╗ ║ Platform │ Mean │ Median │ Mode │ Range ║ ╟──────────┼───────┼────────┼───────┼─────────────────╢ ║ Mac │ $9.83 │ $4.99 │ $4.99 │ $0.99 -> $59.99 ║ ╟──────────┼───────┼────────┼───────┼─────────────────╢ ║ iOS │ $3.51 │ $2.99 │ $0.99 │ $0.99 -> $59.99 ║ ╚══════════╧═══════╧════════╧═══════╧═════════════════╝ I need to clean up my output for "By Seller" because right now it looks like this: Totals By Seller: Apple Inc.: $493.05 (iOS Apps: $21.6, Mac Apps: $70.96) Supercell Oy: $252.7 (IAP: $252.7) Evernote: $147.96 (Subscriptions: $147.96) Panic, Inc.: $87.95 (iOS Apps: $37.96, Mac Apps: $49.99) Hindsight Labs LLC: $67.94 (iOS Apps: $17.96, Mac Apps: $49.98) Assembla, Inc.: $59.99 (Mac Apps: $59.99) American Honda Motor Co., Inc (Acura): $59.99 (iOS Apps: $59.99) Strong Fitness Ltd.: $54.89 (Subscriptions: $54.89) ... Which is not super useful unless you know that name of the company behind the app. I need to re-write my code to at least put a list of the app names at the end or something. For reference, in order the apps are: Apple Inc = Mac OS's Supercell Oy = Clash Royale (Not proud of this number at all) Evernote = Evernote (duh) Panic, Inc = iOS: Prompt, Prompt 2, Coda, Transmit, Status Board | Mac: Coda 2 (I own most all their mac apps as well but didn't buy through the store) Hindsight Labs LLC = Paprika 2 and 3 (for iPad/iPhone/Mac) (recipe app, hands down the best one out there, trust me) Assembla, Inc = Cornerstone (svn program) American Honda Motor Co., Inc = Acura Link (WASTE OF MONEY, I should have fought this charge) Strong Fitness Ltd = Strong (iOS Workout tracker, I think it was like $5-$6/mo) I need to also have my code print out top purchases by price (ignoring seller). I can pull out more if you would like. Edit: As you can tell the Apple Inc line is wrong, it looks like it's not pulling in the "special" categories they created for iCloud stuff, I'll fix that later.