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This explains the way consumer app markets go. App stores cause downward pressure on average prices of apps. Free now being most common. This drives away high
by throwaway13337 8y ago
This explains the way consumer app markets go.
App stores cause downward pressure on average prices of apps. Free now being most common.
This drives away high quality app developers where the consumer and the business interests align.
Now there is only a market for user hostile, free consumer software due to this feedback loop reaching its end.
- randomsearch 8y agoSo no one makes money from software nowadays?
- TeMPOraL 8y agoSome do, if they can find a way to survive or avoid competitors with cheaper/free offerings that are ad-supported or subsidized by VC money.
- CuriousSkeptic 8y agoThe marginal cost of software is always going to be 0. It just doesn’t take any resources to produce another copy. As such I think copy right ruined it. Instead of building up an economy of free software and services we tried to build an economy of intellectual property.
- Geee 8y agoActually, in software, this problem is solved with free trials, pay-per-use, subscriptions, in-game-payments etc. which allows the buyer to pay only for peaches.