> In the initial days of the iPhone, apps used to sell for as much as Mac apps. In the initial days of the iPhone, there were no third party apps. You only got

> In the initial days of the iPhone, apps used to sell for as much as Mac apps. In the initial days of the iPhone, there were no third party apps. You only got Apple's apps plus any web bookmarks you wanted to add to your home screen. Then some people worked out how to force the phone to sideload apps against Apple's wishes. Some time after that, Apple published an SDK and opened a store. The way the store evolved to make apps discoverable encouraged app developers to steadily reduce their prices. App developers can set their own prices per-country, but most accept the defaults.