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> our fellow developer deserves to get paid for their clearly awesome work I agree, but it highlights the many-small-cuts problem $5 for an eReader, then a ma

> our fellow developer deserves to get paid for their clearly awesome work I agree, but it highlights the many-small-cuts problem $5 for an eReader, then a mapping app, file manager, photo editor, mail client... the list of developers deserving support is longer than most people can afford. Eventually a choice has to be made to prioritise. For many people that will mean that a less-used category of app can be fulfilled from F-Droid instead of paying for a more-polished one.

nambit 8y ago
Is it really that great? How many apps do we use in our day to day life? Let's say 20 apps that we use regularly. Is $100 too much for lifetime access to these apps?
- Kaiyou 8y ago
  Lifetime is very misleading. I expect smartphones and apps to become obsolete over the next 40 years. Just like pretty much everything software from 40 years ago is obsolete now.
  - taude 8y ago
    Lifetime in software assumes the lifetime of the app, not the user.
taude 8y ago
Wait, so there's say 20 apps someone uses, maybe average $5/each, that's $100 for apps on a device you might pay $800+ for? Doesn't seem that ridiculous....