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Apple is grooming high value consumers. If your product targets those consumers, piracy does not matter, because they are well behaved carefully selected to buy
by slim 5y ago
Apple is grooming high value consumers. If your product targets those consumers, piracy does not matter, because they are well behaved carefully selected to buy your product at a price point that makes your product profitable even with the apple cut. It's the living proof that you can pay for your product and still be the product and be happy about it.
- enraged_camel 5y agoI think this analysis is fairly shallow. A lot of people pirate things not because they cannot afford the actual thing, but because they can. Furthermore, over the years the percentage of paid apps on the App Store has decreased. What this means is that the opposite of what you claim is true: iOS users have been trained to prefer free things.
- ayewo 5y ago> Furthermore, over the years the percentage of paid apps on the App Store has decreased. What this means is that the opposite of what you claim is true: iOS users have been trained to prefer free things. I'm not so sure that it is as clear-cut as you describe. Over the same time period, the total number of free and paid apps on the App Store has increased. To arrive at a reasonable understanding of the effects of free apps, we will need to plot the ratio of paid-to-free apps to see if the ratio has been steadily declining, has stayed roughly the same, or has been increasing, on a year-to-year basis.