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

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Post by seydor »

delaaxe wrote: post #117
seydor wrote: post #94

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

No, not every good in the world is priced in US dollars and presented as a random number that changes every day

pretty much every good is sold on ebay

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Post by seydor »

hackernewds wrote: post #130
seydor wrote: post #92

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> they do it because they can against the desires of the entire global community of developers. the hallmarks of a true monopoly

Not a monopoly, at least not outside US. But a very capricious high end electronics brand

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Post by orhmeh09 »

TAForObvReasons wrote: post #135
kneebonian wrote: post #118

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> But originally the App Store was leveraging their existing payment infrastructure e.g. the one they use for iPhone sales. Purchases and invoices were done through SAP which was manually configured to support those price points. Can I just say finding out that Apple uses SAP on the backend is just one of those things that shakes my world view.

Amazon used Oracle until a few years ago, Google accounting teams used Excel, etc.

Do Google accountants use Sheets?

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Post by miskin »

oakesm9 wrote: post #122
Idiot211 wrote: post #112

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Does that 59.99 include VAT at 20%?

It does, yes

Interesting thing is that there is no way (that I could find) to buy apps in AppStore for my VAT registered company in a way that I could receive invoice with company details and all necessities to be able to get VAT refund. They seem to pretend they are always selling to private persons and this is not necessary, yet there are many business apps and I am quite sure for business app VAT on 10,000 Eur app would hurt.

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Post by grezql »

CharlesW wrote: post #31
arriu wrote: post #10

So no changes to the 30% yet?

Not beyond their most recent change of commission being 15% for new developers, and developers who made less than $1M in the previous calendar year.

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Post by 369548684892826 »

intrasight wrote: post #125
nickthegreek wrote: post #70

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I want to search for no subs. I dont want to see a result for a $5/week wallpaper app.

What's a "sub"?

subscription (ongoing payment for app)

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Post by lattalayta »

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.

Out of curiosity, how do you feel about an app that is free to download but has ads, but has an In App Purchase to remove the ads?

Reading some of the other comments, it sounds like some people really hate ads and in app purchases

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Post by hitpointdrew »

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…

You would think a company like Apple could easily build a system that updated exchange rates daily and could do the simple math on any price. Having "price points" seems arbitrarily and stupid.

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Post by darth_avocado »

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…

Not to be that guy, but isn’t that like, what computers are for?
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