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What makes you think $15 entitles you to a lifetime purchase let alone $2.99? What else in your life do you get to keep forever for that amount? A pair of levi
by sambeau 13y ago
What makes you think $15 entitles you to a lifetime purchase let alone $2.99? What else in your life do you get to keep forever for that amount?
A pair of levi jeans: ~$50 of ~3 years; an iPhone ~$500 for ~3 years; a beer ~$5 for ~30 mins.
I bought a coffee in Starbucks yesterday. How dare they charge me for another today!
Most apps are priced at even less than a coffee. The profit on most apps is less than that on one tomato.
Yet, you feel entitled?
- aabalkan 13y agoThat's not the same thing. Why are you comparing consumables with software? I don't care how much Tweetbot costs, if it does the job, I can pay $30, but I when I buy it, I must know the release policy of the publisher. Is it going to be Microsoft Office where I have to pay for upgrades? Or is it going to be like Instapaper, a lifetime purchase? This is the point I tried to make.
- bnastic 13y agoYou paid for the software that now resides on your phone. Have they deleted it from your phone and you have to buy the new version?
- sambeau 13y agoThey are all like Microsoft Office where you have to pay for upgrades: one way or another you will, eventually, have to pay for an upgrade. Software is expensive to develop and eventually a constantly expanding market won't be enough to sustain development costs. Eventually everyone who wants one will have a copy of Instapaper and then something will need to change to pay for its development.