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> Also, if you retire the old app, you likely will lose subscribers. If you keep it around, you’ll likely see few users move to the new app. I think the apps h
by ummonk 5y ago
> Also, if you retire the old app, you likely will lose subscribers. If you keep it around, you’ll likely see few users move to the new app.
I think the apps here would be front ends to the same dating network.
- Someone 5y agoThey would, but the app developer wants all their users to move to the new payment service (e.g. so that the developer gets to know more about its users) That calls for making it as easy as possible to migrate. Downloading a new app and deleting the old one is harder for users than using the iOS auto-update mechanism, so developers would prefer to have the ability to update their app with one that offers a subscription through a new payment service. Developers can force users of the old app by retiring it, but they can’t force them to download the new one. Chances are some users will think “what do I get out of this app?” and not download the new one. That’s the “losing subscribers” part.