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Apple announces ‘upgrade’ to App Store pricing, adding 700 new price points

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Re: Apple announces ‘upgrade’ to App Store pricing, adding 700 new price points

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Post by threeseed »

015a wrote: post #81
danjc wrote: post #12

“The team has been hard at work this week and we’re now happy to announce that the number line has even more numbers available in it.”

I don't agree with most of what Musk does; but if this is the kind of innovation that requires a team of highly compensated tech employees and warrants a press release; something is actually, seriously wrong with efficiency in companies like Apple, and maybe he's actually right that Twitter, or many companies, could run better on far fewer employees.

EU and US has already told Musk that his content moderation, trust/safety, compliance teams are woefully inadequate and would need to be significantly increased to comply with existing decrees and regulations.

Also whilst some employees may find it fun and others on H1B have no choice but working 80+ hours is not sustainable.

So before making conclusions about whether Twitter is some innovative new approach to headcount I would give it a little more time.

Re: Apple announces ‘upgrade’ to App Store pricing, adding 700 new price points

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Post by kybernetyk »

barumrho wrote: post #84
black_puppydog wrote: post #66

So, never having bothered with Apple hard-/software I am a bit confused... A developer can't just set a price for something? But then out of the first 10000 natural numbers, Apple semi-arbitrarily select a set of 900 "known-good" numbers that work well for prices? Like, as if the other numbers are somehow bad prices? If you charge someone $7,43 for something, the ghost of Steve Jobs will start haunting you? That's, l…

One reason I'm aware of is for foreign customers who are buying in foreign currencies. As a developer, I don't want to set prices in every currency, so they translate the price grid for me which I found useful.

But they don't fairly translate the price. They just make up numbers for different currencies. $49.99 translates by Apple's standards to 59.99 EUR - which is roughly 10 Euros too much.

Re: Apple announces ‘upgrade’ to App Store pricing, adding 700 new price points

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Post by howinteresting »

Overtonwindow wrote: post #64

How many apps have you purchased from the App Store? I have only purchased five apps since 2008. Are people just spending lots of money on apps or am I out of the norm?

According to the Epic v. Apple decision:

* The vast majority of app store revenue is from games.

* A small number of "whales" spend almost all of the money -- presumably rich kids and adults, and people with an unfortunate gambling addiction.

Re: Apple announces ‘upgrade’ to App Store pricing, adding 700 new price points

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Post by threeseed »

binarymax wrote: post #16

I’m not an App Store seller so I have no idea what this means. You can’t just pick any number that you want to sell your app for? You have predetermined prices set by Apple?

As I mentioned above pretty sure this was a limitation of their SAP based system and the way it was integrated with the iTunes Store (what App Store used) that required you to pre-define price points.

Re: Apple announces ‘upgrade’ to App Store pricing, adding 700 new price points

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Post by smcleod »

Apple needs to make it easier for people pricing their apps fairly for international markets.

So many applications and subscriptions are incredibly expensive when they're priced for the USA which has been over valued for so many years now.

Re: Apple announces ‘upgrade’ to App Store pricing, adding 700 new price points

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Post by staringback »

cauthon wrote: post #3
ralmidani wrote: post #2

Genuine question: is there a market for a $10,000 app?

Are you too young to remember “I Am Rich“? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich

Seeing prices list from 2008 having "today's dollars" is really scaring me.

Re: Apple announces ‘upgrade’ to App Store pricing, adding 700 new price points

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Post by jimbob45 »

015a wrote: post #81
danjc wrote: post #12

“The team has been hard at work this week and we’re now happy to announce that the number line has even more numbers available in it.”

I don't agree with most of what Musk does; but if this is the kind of innovation that requires a team of highly compensated tech employees and warrants a press release; something is actually, seriously wrong with efficiency in companies like Apple, and maybe he's actually right that Twitter, or many companies, could run better on far fewer employees.

When software and systems become sufficiently large, change becomes extremely difficult. Even strong architectures have their limit. I have to imagine that Apple has hit that limit serving payments worldwide.

The real lie isn't that this was a difficult and costly change for their top-notch team. The real lie is that this works at all - some dev out there is waiting with no fingernails left for the bugs to start pouring in.

Re: Apple announces ‘upgrade’ to App Store pricing, adding 700 new price points

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Post by eastbound »

frosted-flakes wrote: post #61
rootusrootus wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And then there are gas stations, infamous for taking it another step and including another tenth of a penny.

Only American gas stations. They go so far as to have the 9/10 of a cent fraction as a permanent part of the sign.

French stations too, they’ve introduced the 1.779€ a liter pricing a dozen years ago, so, 4 significant numbers. On a 100€ refill, it’s 10 cents, ie a drop.

Re: Apple announces ‘upgrade’ to App Store pricing, adding 700 new price points

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Post by hackernewds »

smcleod wrote: post #105

Apple needs to make it easier for people pricing their apps fairly for international markets. So many applications and subscriptions are incredibly expensive when they're priced for the USA which has been over valued for so many years now.

That would open up a whole can of worms of users locations being necessary/easy to fake for discounts.

Re: Apple announces ‘upgrade’ to App Store pricing, adding 700 new price points

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Post by hackernewds »

qzw wrote: post #52
archildress wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can't wait for the courageous design decision to then remove numbers from the follow-up release for more simplicity.

“Our metrics show that less than 0.02% of all apps are using the $26.65 and $57.30 price points. They are therefore no longer available to new apps. Existing apps using these price points will be required to change to one of the other supported price points by March 1, 2024.”

The hallmarks of a true monopoly here
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