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How would an open market fix this? Consumers have shown they no longer want to pay for anything. Movies, music, or apps. There are some people though who are ha

How would an open market fix this? Consumers have shown they no longer want to pay for anything. Movies, music, or apps. There are some people though who are happy to pay large amounts of money. In-app purchases allow those people to spend and the people who don't want to pay don't have to. In a more open market consumers still wouldn't want to pay for apps so in-app purchases would still be necessary.

perlpimp 12y ago
At least giving way for paid upgrades should sort of fix that, giving developers genuine motive not to produce this crap. I have been annoyed by upgrades to apps that litter screen with triggers to buy new stuff. For example flightradar24 I bought a full version of the app. In an update they positioned tiggers on every city to get me to buy upgrade for every city to view departure and arrival time. Suddenly my app is visually broken and I have to pay for the upgrade to fix it. And I can't even downgrade. I really don't care about departure/arrival schedules for airports... this does not seem right to me. I guess that breaks one of the core rules of the interface design - of least surprise. (or recurring one that turns into a severe irritation).
lifeisstillgood 12y ago
Everyone has always not wanted to pay for anything. It's only recently been possible. And I disagree - a free market contains information about the cost of a product - but this information is not readily available at purchase time. It's like buying a car and not knowing the mpg - and the manufacturer gets 70% of your petrol purchases. In that case there is every incentive to sell cars doing 5 miles a gallon and less. An open market fixes an awful lot of things - as long as it is an open market. I will add that this mobile app market is massively dominated by two players and that if mobile comms is as important to the next decade as we think it is, that is bad for everyone. Apple should not have a lock on the software that runs the lives of half the western world. No one should.

perlpimp 12y ago

At least giving way for paid upgrades should sort of fix that, giving developers genuine motive not to produce this crap. I have been annoyed by upgrades to apps that litter screen with triggers to buy new stuff. For example flightradar24 I bought a full version of the app. In an update they positioned tiggers on every city to get me to buy upgrade for every city to view departure and arrival time. Suddenly my app is visually broken and I have to pay for the upgrade to fix it. And I can't even downgrade. I really don't care about departure/arrival schedules for airports... this does not seem right to me. I guess that breaks one of the core rules of the interface design - of least surprise. (or recurring one that turns into a severe irritation).

lifeisstillgood 12y ago

Everyone has always not wanted to pay for anything. It's only recently been possible. And I disagree - a free market contains information about the cost of a product - but this information is not readily available at purchase time. It's like buying a car and not knowing the mpg - and the manufacturer gets 70% of your petrol purchases. In that case there is every incentive to sell cars doing 5 miles a gallon and less. An open market fixes an awful lot of things - as long as it is an open market. I will add that this mobile app market is massively dominated by two players and that if mobile comms is as important to the next decade as we think it is, that is bad for everyone. Apple should not have a lock on the software that runs the lives of half the western world. No one should.