Update – We’re unable to offer upgrade pricing for Mac App Store purchases
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Re: Update – We’re unable to offer upgrade pricing for Mac App Store purchases
#2"We are not allowed to distribute updates through other channels to apps which were purchased from the App Store."
The solution is simple.
All Mac developers should stop selling through the App Store, regain control of the distribution channel, and leave the Mac App Store barren of quality applications.
Until Mac developers have leverage, Apple will continue taking their 30% cut and enforcing rules which suit them and not the developers.
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Just wanted to add...
What are developers going to do when Apple says every single new API in Mavericks can only be used if the app is sold through the Mac App Store? This has already happened with the iCloud SDK, so it's likely they will continue on this path.
What if one day Apple says you can only have a developer certificate if your apps are sold exclusively through the Mac App Store?
Re: Update – We’re unable to offer upgrade pricing for Mac App Store purchases
#3"We are not allowed to distribute updates through other channels to apps which were purchased from the App Store." The solution is simple. All Mac developers should stop selling through the App Store, regain control of the distribution channel, and leave the Mac App Store barren of quality applications. Until Mac developers have leverage, Apple will continue taking their 30% cut and enforcing rules which suit them an…
What an incredibly simple solution you've devised. I'm not sure why it hasn't been adopted!? It's so simple!
Either way, I've alerted the committee of the Nobel Prize of Economics about your discovery.
Re: Update – We’re unable to offer upgrade pricing for Mac App Store purchases
#4It was so obvious when I read about it here http://brooksreview.net/2013/08/omnikeymaster-upgrade-pricin... just the other day.
Why would Apple build a distribution channel and then let people upgrade apps outside of it without getting their cut? I think this was obvious for the Omni guys too, they just wanted this problem to get some publicity.
Re: Update – We’re unable to offer upgrade pricing for Mac App Store purchases
#5It was so obvious when I read about it here http://brooksreview.net/2013/08/omnikeymaster-upgrade-pricin... just the other day. Why would Apple build a distribution channel and then let people upgrade apps outside of it without getting their cut? I think this was obvious for the Omni guys too, they just wanted this problem to get some publicity.
They kind of have to because the App Store doesn't allow paid upgrades. There's no way to offer two prices (upgrade price and full retail price) for an app.
EDIT: The in-between choice would be moving to SaaS (see Adobe), but that's another discussion entirely
Re: Update – We’re unable to offer upgrade pricing for Mac App Store purchases
#6The Mac App Store does provide something of value: app hosting, oh-so-easy purchasing (just enter a password, as Apple has your credit card details on file), app delivery, license management.
But the downsides. Boy, the downsides. And they take a 30% cut of the gross price.
It would be really nice if there was an alternative App store, which offered the similar benefits, was cheaper for developers, was curated, but was more developer-friendly.
Re: Update – We’re unable to offer upgrade pricing for Mac App Store purchases
#7The Mac App Store does provide something of value: app hosting, oh-so-easy purchasing (just enter a password, as Apple has your credit card details on file), app delivery, license management. But the downsides. Boy, the downsides. And they take a 30% cut of the gross price. It would be really nice if there was an alternative App store, which offered the similar benefits, was cheaper for developers, was curated, but w…
There is http://appbodega.com/ but, yeah, nobody buys there anything.
Re: Update – We’re unable to offer upgrade pricing for Mac App Store purchases
#8Seems like this is a case study for "Android is for startups" http://blog.audobox.com/android-is-for-startups/
Re: Update – We’re unable to offer upgrade pricing for Mac App Store purchases
#9Why not offer rebates to users of the old version instead?
Re: Update – We’re unable to offer upgrade pricing for Mac App Store purchases
#10Why not offer rebates to users of the old version instead?
It's likely that Apple would veto that as well.