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

Post by hackernewds » Tue, Dec 06, 2022, 7:42 PM UTC

threeseed wrote: post #101

015a wrote: post #81

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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 headco…

Post by BulgarianIdiot » Tue, Dec 06, 2022, 7:43 PM UTC

JonathonW wrote: post #97

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…

Apple uses price points rather than having developers explicitly specify prices because they're currency-independent: you specify a price point and Apple chooses appropriate prices for each of the ~175 different storefronts where your app could be available. Apple then periodically adjusts the international prices as exchange rates fluctuate, to keep them in parity with the US prices at the same tiers. The alternativ…

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Post by delaaxe » Tue, Dec 06, 2022, 7:44 PM UTC

seydor wrote: post #94

barumrho wrote: post #91

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This means that for foreign customers of yours, your product will have constantly fluctuating price. I personally don't find that desirable. Also, there is some considerations to be made for purchasing power especially for items like apps. $1 might be trivial in the US, but it may not be so in a third world country.

that's quite desireable, i mean it's what everything else in the world does.

Post by MBCook » Tue, Dec 06, 2022, 7:45 PM UTC

duxup wrote: post #98

timbre1234 wrote: post #38

Give me an option to search for "no ads" in an app, or give me nothing. I've simply stopped buying iOS apps because I'm done with the ad loads.

This might not be what you want but Apple Arcade has slowly become the place I search for games. Quality of games is very high. No ads, no IAP. As a parent it is also handy for the same reasons as far as the kids devices go.