Update – We’re unable to offer upgrade pricing for Mac App Store purchases

Post by Spooky23 » Thu, Sep 05, 2013, 4:48 PM UTC

bradleyland wrote: post #64

pornel wrote: post #63

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> The people paying $80 for todo list management don't need upgrade pricing. Omni makes good products that are (IMHO) worth $80, and paying full price for an upgrade is unfair whether that's an $80 app or a $3.99 app. The problem isn't that software costs $80, it's that giving up freedom to use AppStore ends up hurting users and developers.

I'm not sure this is the kind of thing that can be categorized as fair or unfair. The upgrade-pricing model follows the rationale that users pay a higher up-front cost for software, then each upgrade is a maintenance fee to support continued improvement of the software. The flat-cost model spreads the cost of continued software development equally over all users. The feeling of whether or not this is "fair" depends u…

Post by glhaynes » Thu, Sep 05, 2013, 8:50 PM UTC

TheZenPsycho wrote: post #62

yapcguy wrote: post #21

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Yep, it's a double-edged sword. The App Store may offer things like the iCloud SDK but will restrict apps from using features that compete with Apples own apps, as well as any cool hacks which apps outside the App Store are free to make use of. My take is that Apple is herding developers into the App Store, enticing them with SDK features and the promise of riches, and at some point they will change the default gatek…

Big fat warning is already the default, isn't it?