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Be happy with my $5.99 because you could have much less with this attitude. Your $5.99 isn't enough to support developing anything but a cheap, top-50 hit of a
by ankhmoop 17y ago
Be happy with my $5.99 because you could have much less with this attitude.
Your $5.99 isn't enough to support developing anything but a cheap, top-50 hit of an application. Thanks to remarkably steep price competition and remarkably poor discoverability, the app store very much lacks anything resembling a long tail.
We sold a small app for $1.99, just to compete with similar apps in the space. If we'd sold our app for $5.99, we would have made a tidy profit on solid initial sales and moved on to make another application. However, at the $5.99 range we're competing with much more polished and comprehensive applications. This left us barely covering our development costs at the $1.99 price, with our sales rapidly declining after the first month.
- fauigerzigerk 17y agoYour $5.99 isn't enough to support developing anything but a cheap, top-50 hit of an application I can hear traditional airlines grumble: "For 50 USD/EUR we can't even serve proper meals, assign seat numbers or use central hub airports"
- ankhmoop 17y agoExcept that for $1.99, we can't even afford to invest in writing a small, useful application -- and we're a very small, very low-overhead company.