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Re: Secret iPad

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Post by simonh »

flycaliguy wrote: post #35
criddell wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are some fantastic iPad apps. Procreate and GoodNotes are two of my favorites. They are also insanely inexpensive. I can't imagine making something as good as Procreate and then only charging $10 for it. If I had an idea for something complex on the iPad I would have serious reservations about developing it. You can't charge reasonable prices for software unless you do it in $0.99 chunks.

I swear procreate was much more expensive than $10 when I bought it. I can’t find evidence of it being reduced, maybe my memory is faulty.

I’m pretty sure I paid $20 for it. Ridiculously good value either way.

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Post by NietTim »

li4ick wrote: post #3

If you like this kind of behind the scenes, i highly recommend Ken Kocienda's book "Creative Selection" about the development of some parts of the first iPhone.

Thanks for reminding me, this is the perfect time to finally read that book.

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Post by snake42 »

nmstoker wrote: post #72

The author writes well. Slightly off-topic compared to the iPad piece but the story about his time in a glider in the Yorkshire dales is a cracking read: https://thinkfractional.blog/a-day-to-remember/

Thanks for mentioning this. What a fantastic read.

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Post by BenGosub »

_bxg1 wrote: post #5

Even now, hearing about this app I think "Wow! That's so novel and cool! ( magical , even)". I've said it before, but I dearly miss the creativity people had in the first few years of iOS. We have much better devices now; we should have better apps! I should be so desensitized by how interesting the new apps are that a skeuomorphic guitar tuner sounds banal and obvious! Instead today's apps are boring. They've been r…

Music production software is currently booming in the IOS world, there are professional producers using the iPad to make music e.g. Madlib announced that he made all beats for the album Bandana on his iPad

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Post by rchaud »

scarface74 wrote: post #66
rchaud wrote: post #46

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The iPad Pro doesn't come with a pen or a keyboard but that doesn't prevent them from flying off the shelves anyway.

How many successful apps require a pen or keyboard?

Microsoft Office and Google Drive would be the big ones. No one's paying $799 to watch Netflix when a $250 iPad will give them the exact same experience.

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Post by scarface74 »

rchaud wrote: post #77
scarface74 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How many successful apps require a pen or keyboard?

Microsoft Office and Google Drive would be the big ones. No one's paying $799 to watch Netflix when a $250 iPad will give them the exact same experience.

And notice that neither Microsoft, Google, nor Adobe sell “iPad apps”. They sell a subscription that allows you to use their apps across all platforms.

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Post by wilg »

mortenjorck wrote: post #41
chronogram wrote: post #15

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Procreate is the killer app of the Apple pencil and maybe even the iPad Pro. The pricing is indeed strange. There are people paying $999 for a tablet, $129 for the pencil, just to run a $10 app.

This is, of course, completely unsustainable. Savage Interactive has only been able to sustain this particular price point because it's presumably closely correlated to new iPad purchases. It's the most high-profile iPad visual art app, perennially promoted on the App Store, and so you can model it more or less as a tiny percentage of quarterly iPad revenue. That is a market position, in its vertical, with space for…

Perhaps Apple Arcade for apps?
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