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Stop Using The Cup of Coffee vs. $0.99 Cent App Analogy

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Re: Stop Using The Cup of Coffee vs. $0.99 Cent App Analogy

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Post by hartez »

raldi wrote: post #37

Why doesn't the App Store just let people get a free 24-hour trial of any software? Or at least for any software where the developer didn't specifically opt out of offering free trials?

Yeah, I still don't understand the logic behind this. I've used the App Store and the Windows Phone Marketplace, and of the two I've actually bought a lot more stuff from the Marketplace. The concept of "trial" software where you can later upgrade to the full version if you want is built right into the Marketplace and the phone OS, so it's fairly easy for developers to offer it if they want. When confronted with several apps that do essentially the same thing, I pick up the trial version of each one and then buy the full version of the one that works best. I've bought a lot of apps this way, almost all of them more than $0.99. If I decide to try a new version of a different app later, I can do so with pretty much no risk.

Does anyone know why Apple doesn't offer this? Are they just worried it will somehow cause customer confusion?

Re: Stop Using The Cup of Coffee vs. $0.99 Cent App Analogy

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Post by andrewfelix »

dasil003 wrote: post #66
andrewfelix wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well said. "Starbucks Craftsmanship" ? Please. Not sure what artisans you have running Starbucks cafes in the US, but in Australia the barristers are largely low paid teenagers using un-cleaned machines and second rate beans. To top it off most of the drinks have dollop of cream or some other sugary ingredient to mask the awful quality of the coffee. I would gladly 'gamble' 99c with an iPhone developer over a Starbuc…

I've been hating Starbucks since 1993 where at my first job at a movie theater we shared a trash compactor with them, and those bastards would never press the button, so you had to stand in the smelly garbage room and wait for it to compress their garbage before you could throw yours in. It would be years before I could actually afford to buy a coffee from there. Now I live in London, and as far as I can tell, all th…

Don't get me wrong, Aussies make amazing coffee. The best coffee comes from a portable stall outside Sydney central station crafted by a Polish Aussie using Campos beans.

Re: Stop Using The Cup of Coffee vs. $0.99 Cent App Analogy

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Post by erickhill »

mistercow wrote: post #64
andrewfelix wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well said. "Starbucks Craftsmanship" ? Please. Not sure what artisans you have running Starbucks cafes in the US, but in Australia the barristers are largely low paid teenagers using un-cleaned machines and second rate beans. To top it off most of the drinks have dollop of cream or some other sugary ingredient to mask the awful quality of the coffee. I would gladly 'gamble' 99c with an iPhone developer over a Starbuc…

>and second rate beans Actually, the tragedy of it is that Starbucks uses pretty good beans. If you buy their brand of beans and make the coffee yourself, you can make a damned good cup of coffee. But Starbucks apparently has standardized entirely the wrong procedure for using those beans, so that the end product tastes like they accidentally dropped a bouillon cube in it.

While it is easy for some to slam Starbucks coffee for taste , the truth is nearly every cafe you go to will have a healthy business - and often perpetual lines - of paying customers. Quality is subjective, and the entire experience Starbucks brings is what the urban masses are looking for. For that matter, take a long road trip, and if you happen to see a Starbucks logo on an exit sign, more often than not you're going to throw in the towel and go get a Grande.

Re: Stop Using The Cup of Coffee vs. $0.99 Cent App Analogy

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Post by minikomi »

dasil003 wrote: post #66
andrewfelix wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well said. "Starbucks Craftsmanship" ? Please. Not sure what artisans you have running Starbucks cafes in the US, but in Australia the barristers are largely low paid teenagers using un-cleaned machines and second rate beans. To top it off most of the drinks have dollop of cream or some other sugary ingredient to mask the awful quality of the coffee. I would gladly 'gamble' 99c with an iPhone developer over a Starbuc…

I've been hating Starbucks since 1993 where at my first job at a movie theater we shared a trash compactor with them, and those bastards would never press the button, so you had to stand in the smelly garbage room and wait for it to compress their garbage before you could throw yours in. It would be years before I could actually afford to buy a coffee from there. Now I live in London, and as far as I can tell, all th…

Just for the record:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7540480.stm

Re: Stop Using The Cup of Coffee vs. $0.99 Cent App Analogy

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Post by mirsadm »

andrewfelix wrote: post #59
tptacek wrote: post #47

Horrifying. The point about the coffee cup comparison isn't that cups of coffee are the benchmark experience for product pricing; if that were the case, my next root canal would cost $0.20. The point of the coffee cup comparison is marginal utility : the money you spend on an expensive cup of coffee almost certainly has very little utility at the margin, because you are happy to chuck it away for a bad cup of coffee.…

Well said. "Starbucks Craftsmanship" ? Please. Not sure what artisans you have running Starbucks cafes in the US, but in Australia the barristers are largely low paid teenagers using un-cleaned machines and second rate beans. To top it off most of the drinks have dollop of cream or some other sugary ingredient to mask the awful quality of the coffee. I would gladly 'gamble' 99c with an iPhone developer over a Starbuc…

wow..sorry but that is completely incorrect. Melbourne has amazing coffee. I've been in Canada for over a year now (travelling to the US every now and then) and the general level of coffee here is truly awful (starbucks, tim hortons etc). The positive is that it is cheap.

Re: Stop Using The Cup of Coffee vs. $0.99 Cent App Analogy

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Post by andrewfelix »

mirsadm wrote: post #76
andrewfelix wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well said. "Starbucks Craftsmanship" ? Please. Not sure what artisans you have running Starbucks cafes in the US, but in Australia the barristers are largely low paid teenagers using un-cleaned machines and second rate beans. To top it off most of the drinks have dollop of cream or some other sugary ingredient to mask the awful quality of the coffee. I would gladly 'gamble' 99c with an iPhone developer over a Starbuc…

wow..sorry but that is completely incorrect. Melbourne has amazing coffee. I've been in Canada for over a year now (travelling to the US every now and then) and the general level of coffee here is truly awful (starbucks, tim hortons etc). The positive is that it is cheap.

Was talking about Starbucks not Australian coffee.

Re: Stop Using The Cup of Coffee vs. $0.99 Cent App Analogy

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Post by mirsadm »

andrewfelix wrote: post #77
mirsadm wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

wow..sorry but that is completely incorrect. Melbourne has amazing coffee. I've been in Canada for over a year now (travelling to the US every now and then) and the general level of coffee here is truly awful (starbucks, tim hortons etc). The positive is that it is cheap.

Was talking about Starbucks not Australian coffee.

Ah makes sense. Starbucks is pretty terrible and I never really understood why you would go there (especially in Melbourne).

Re: Stop Using The Cup of Coffee vs. $0.99 Cent App Analogy

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Post by [deleted] »

swah wrote: post #60
cwp wrote: post #51

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If I try a new restaurant and they don't bring my food to the table, I walk out without paying. If the food is horrible, I can send it back. If I pay the bill, I'm acknowledging that I got something of value. I may not decide to go back, but at least I'm not hungry any more. The same applies to your other examples. If the projector malfunctions when I'm watching a movie in a theatre, I get a coupon to come back anoth…

Totally agree, but 24 hours is time enough to finish a game...

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