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> or by just charging full freight again But is this possible with a one-time-full-price app in the App Store? It’s not, right? Once someone pays for your app,
by foooorsyth 4y ago
> or by just charging full freight again
But is this possible with a one-time-full-price app in the App Store? It’s not, right? Once someone pays for your app, they get all updates forever. I think that’s what the person you were replying to was getting at.
Basically, there are 3 major purchase models for software:
1) I’m buying a forever license
2) I’m buying this major version only
3) I’m subscribing to this software on a monthly/yearly basis
The App Store only seems to support 1) and 3), but not 2). If you want to do 2), you have to roll it yourself outside of Apple’s infrastructure. Which means sending your own invoices, setting up your own key mechanisms, and all of that associated pain
- alexvoda 4y agoThis is just one more reason 3'rd party stores should exist.
- Terretta 4y agoIf you think corporations will buy from the third party store that isn't built into the Apple Business Manager (plus MDM of choice) that lets you open shrink-wrapped Macs and hand them to the employee with all their apps self-installed, think again.
- alexvoda 4y agoMaybe not, but competition will put pressure on Apple to improove and offer more options for business models other than 1 and 3.
- yencabulator 4y agoI think the ability to MDM manage 3rd party stores is part of table stakes for "3rd party stores should [be allowed to] exist". Apple likes their walled garden.
- Aeolun 4y agoI think you can solve that by copying your codebase and releasing version 3 under a different app ID.
- xhruso00 4y agoYou will lose all the reviews and start from 0. Apple will not allow 2 different versions at the same time.
- jtbayly 4y agoSome devs make each major version its own app in the App Store. It has drawbacks, I suppose, but it works.
- Terretta 4y agoSee e.g. 1Password 7, 1Password 8. See the apps like PDF Expert from Readdle Docs. See ... no need to itemize, as tons of successful app vendors make this work. It's not a real problem.
- jamesgeck0 4y agoThe macOS version of 1Password 8 isn’t on the App Store, presumably because of draconian pricing rules like this.
- jtbayly 4y agoI’d be willing to bet anything it’s just because of the 30%.
- ricardobeat 4y agoHappens all the time. You rename v1 to 'AppX 1', and publish v2/latest as just 'AppX'. Would be much better if the App Store had paid major updates built in, but this is good enough. [Except when they decide to spam the legacy version with upgrade nags, gray out the app icon and put a bright red 'OLD' tag on top - looking at you, Blinkshell]