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How many apps have you purchased from the App Store? I have only purchased five apps since 2008. Are people just spending lots of money on apps or am I out of t

How many apps have you purchased from the App Store? I have only purchased five apps since 2008. Are people just spending lots of money on apps or am I out of the norm?

howinteresting 4y ago
According to the Epic v. Apple decision: * The vast majority of app store revenue is from games. * A small number of "whales" spend almost all of the money -- presumably rich kids and adults, and people with an unfortunate gambling addiction.
- intrasight 4y ago
  This is why I find it so baffling that there are so many devs/companies chasing the golden ring of app revenue with sincerity when clearly is a very warped marketplace. What types of useful, non-scam apps do people look for and buy that lead devs to believe there's some opportunity? Why create it as an app and deal with all that BS when you could just make a nice web site/PWA?
  - earthnail 4y ago
    Some products are designed to make use of the iPhone as a form factor. Then you can’t make a PWA. But yes, the market is warped and Apple has a lot of work to do to make it a better marketplace. This is a step in the right direction though. Maybe more steps will follow.
super256 4y ago
I spent ~150€ since 2018, mostly for productive apps. Canarymail (A mail client which supports SMTP streaming + PGP) - I think was about 30€ lifetime. StrongBox Pro (A Keepass 2 client) - 80€ Lifetime ProCreate - 10€ Lifetime Affinity Designer 1 - 12€ lifetime FEZ - 5€ Lifetime (Game) TweetBot - 5€ Lifetime but now abandoned for Subscription Software. Doesn't work anymore, I'm using the normal Twitter App now (became usable over the last few years). The only app where I was disappointed in doing a lifetime purchase. It was abandoned really quickly after my purchgase. Blitzer Pro - 10€ Lifetime Threema - 4€ Lifetime DWD WarnWetter - 2€ Lifetime. Most accurate weather app for Germany Facetune 1 - 4€ (Didn't fix my face! Surpise!) Reeder - 5€ RSS Feed App, I use this together with Miniflux Server My last purchase was in 2021, Reeder. I made most purchases when I got the devices, and all lifetime over SaaS purchases have paid for themselves by now. :) But honestly, this was more than I expected.
Eumenes 4y ago
The only app I've ever bought is Swiftkey. Now its Microsoft spyware. I don't even have a credit card on my apple ID (is that what its called now?)
yamtaddle 4y ago
I'm the same, except I also pay for two subscription-based apps that frequently update content, mostly for my kids. Simply Piano (amazing, can't praise it enough) and Tappity (mostly science-related content for younger kids, think Bill Nye or Beakman's World but semi-interactive and on an iPad instead of the TV—it's not amazing but my youngest really took to it and is getting enough out of it to justify the subscription, IMO) I think it's $300-400 a year for the pair of them? Easy to justify especially in Simply Piano's case, when you consider what even a few weeks of in-person piano lessons would cost (not that it makes such lessons obsolete, but still). But yeah, outright buying apps or using IAP... ProCreate, Angry Birds (yay! they re-released the original, which is one of the only two of those I care about, finally! Now if I could just get Seasons again...), several tables in Pinball Arcade bought when they were on steep discount just before they lost the licenses to most of the tables I was interested in. I think that's all my App Store purchases, ever, otherwise. I think most of the money's from "whales" in shitty F2P games.

How many apps have you purchased from the App Store? I have only purchased five apps since 2008. Are people just spending lots of money on apps or am I out of the norm?

howinteresting 4y ago

According to the Epic v. Apple decision: * The vast majority of app store revenue is from games. * A small number of "whales" spend almost all of the money -- presumably rich kids and adults, and people with an unfortunate gambling addiction.

intrasight 4y ago
This is why I find it so baffling that there are so many devs/companies chasing the golden ring of app revenue with sincerity when clearly is a very warped marketplace. What types of useful, non-scam apps do people look for and buy that lead devs to believe there's some opportunity? Why create it as an app and deal with all that BS when you could just make a nice web site/PWA?
- earthnail 4y ago
  Some products are designed to make use of the iPhone as a form factor. Then you can’t make a PWA. But yes, the market is warped and Apple has a lot of work to do to make it a better marketplace. This is a step in the right direction though. Maybe more steps will follow.

super256 4y ago

I spent ~150€ since 2018, mostly for productive apps. Canarymail (A mail client which supports SMTP streaming + PGP) - I think was about 30€ lifetime. StrongBox Pro (A Keepass 2 client) - 80€ Lifetime ProCreate - 10€ Lifetime Affinity Designer 1 - 12€ lifetime FEZ - 5€ Lifetime (Game) TweetBot - 5€ Lifetime but now abandoned for Subscription Software. Doesn't work anymore, I'm using the normal Twitter App now (became usable over the last few years). The only app where I was disappointed in doing a lifetime purchase. It was abandoned really quickly after my purchgase. Blitzer Pro - 10€ Lifetime Threema - 4€ Lifetime DWD WarnWetter - 2€ Lifetime. Most accurate weather app for Germany Facetune 1 - 4€ (Didn't fix my face! Surpise!) Reeder - 5€ RSS Feed App, I use this together with Miniflux Server My last purchase was in 2021, Reeder. I made most purchases when I got the devices, and all lifetime over SaaS purchases have paid for themselves by now. :) But honestly, this was more than I expected.

Eumenes 4y ago

The only app I've ever bought is Swiftkey. Now its Microsoft spyware. I don't even have a credit card on my apple ID (is that what its called now?)

yamtaddle 4y ago

I'm the same, except I also pay for two subscription-based apps that frequently update content, mostly for my kids. Simply Piano (amazing, can't praise it enough) and Tappity (mostly science-related content for younger kids, think Bill Nye or Beakman's World but semi-interactive and on an iPad instead of the TV—it's not amazing but my youngest really took to it and is getting enough out of it to justify the subscription, IMO) I think it's $300-400 a year for the pair of them? Easy to justify especially in Simply Piano's case, when you consider what even a few weeks of in-person piano lessons would cost (not that it makes such lessons obsolete, but still). But yeah, outright buying apps or using IAP... ProCreate, Angry Birds (yay! they re-released the original, which is one of the only two of those I care about, finally! Now if I could just get Seasons again...), several tables in Pinball Arcade bought when they were on steep discount just before they lost the licenses to most of the tables I was interested in. I think that's all my App Store purchases, ever, otherwise. I think most of the money's from "whales" in shitty F2P games.