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My sales have also remained very steady, which I was not expecting at all. Perhaps it will take time for Verizon iPhone owners to get used to buying apps?
by nhangen 16y ago
My sales have also remained very steady, which I was not expecting at all. Perhaps it will take time for Verizon iPhone owners to get used to buying apps?
- mbreese 16y agoThat was my initial guess... I see two main scenarios for Verizon iPhone buyers: 1) existing iPhone users switching to Verizon 2) Verizon users that don't have an Android phone buying an iPhone In the first case, they'd already have the apps they want. In the second, they may not be used to buying Apps yet. I'd be interested to know what the sales of something more mainstream would be. I just don't see the buyers of Instapaper being in category #2.
- angus77 16y agoI would assume that new customers with app-less phones would be the most eager to start filling up their phones with apps---isn't that the point of buying a smartphone?
- r00fus 16y agoWell, when on VZ a few years back with my Treo I made it a policy not to buy any service bump or add-on as I felt VZ screwed anyone foolish enough to try... perhaps the VZ feature-phone switchers are still thinking likewise?
- nhangen 16y agoWhen I bought my phone, I swore I wouldn't buy any apps. I don't know why, but I just thought it was something I had to tell myself. 2 years later, well...you know how it goes.
- CoffeeDregs 16y ago> Perhaps it will take time for Verizon iPhone owners to get used to buying apps? As a user, I have just the opposite experience: I buy 90% of my apps within 2 weeks of getting the phone. Thereafter my phone's customized and my app-downloading/buying dwindles significantly.