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This means that for foreign customers of yours, your product will have constantly fluctuating price. I personally don't find that desirable. Also, there is some

This means that for foreign customers of yours, your product will have constantly fluctuating price. I personally don't find that desirable. Also, there is some considerations to be made for purchasing power especially for items like apps. $1 might be trivial in the US, but it may not be so in a third world country.

seydor 4y ago
that's quite desireable, i mean it's what everything else in the world does.
- delaaxe 4y ago
  No, not every good in the world is priced in US dollars and presented as a random number that changes every day
  - seydor 4y ago
    pretty much every good is sold on ebay
    - nicoburns 4y ago
      Not everything sold on ebay is priced in dollars either.
      - seydor 4y ago
        that was my point
    - kergonath 4y ago
      I never buy anything in dollars on eBay. Sterling, sometimes, but it’s euros 99% of the time. Prices on eBay actually look like something a human would choose. On AliExpress on the other hand the prices are all over the place, with really odd numbers of cents, which I assume comes from automatic conversion from whatever currency they initially priced it in (not necessarily dollars at that point).
xxpor 4y ago
They could offer stickiness settings, like only change the price once the FX rate has moved 10%.
- kergonath 4y ago
  Yes, they can have a set of rules to set the prices. But then it’s not that different from the current system, which really is not problematic in the first place. I know this is the place for pedantic nit picking, but the fact that prices have some granularity is very much a non-issue. In any case, actually probably have such rules, just not public. I am sure they have sales people being paid full time to agonise over such issues.
dahfizz 4y ago
Apple obviously uses some conversation rate internally when creating and updating these pre-defined tables. They could use those same numbers, with the same update frequency, with an arbitrary input price.

seydor 4y ago

that's quite desireable, i mean it's what everything else in the world does.

delaaxe 4y ago
No, not every good in the world is priced in US dollars and presented as a random number that changes every day
- seydor 4y ago
  pretty much every good is sold on ebay
  - nicoburns 4y ago
    Not everything sold on ebay is priced in dollars either.
    - seydor 4y ago
      that was my point
  - kergonath 4y ago
    I never buy anything in dollars on eBay. Sterling, sometimes, but it’s euros 99% of the time. Prices on eBay actually look like something a human would choose. On AliExpress on the other hand the prices are all over the place, with really odd numbers of cents, which I assume comes from automatic conversion from whatever currency they initially priced it in (not necessarily dollars at that point).

xxpor 4y ago

They could offer stickiness settings, like only change the price once the FX rate has moved 10%.

kergonath 4y ago
Yes, they can have a set of rules to set the prices. But then it’s not that different from the current system, which really is not problematic in the first place. I know this is the place for pedantic nit picking, but the fact that prices have some granularity is very much a non-issue. In any case, actually probably have such rules, just not public. I am sure they have sales people being paid full time to agonise over such issues.

dahfizz 4y ago

Apple obviously uses some conversation rate internally when creating and updating these pre-defined tables. They could use those same numbers, with the same update frequency, with an arbitrary input price.