Drop the 30% tax some, there’s a story
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
#152Will this solve the issue that the $49.99 tier equals to a 59.99 EUR price? I get a ton of messages every week by would-be Euro customers complaining why the fuck I am fleecing them with a 59.99 EUR price when the US price is $49.99 and the exchange rate is currently roughly 1:1.
When it comes to differences in hardware prices between the US & EU, VAT taxes are often most of the difference: are there VAT taxes on app sales too?
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#153I’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?
Correct, Apple requires you to use one of it's artisanal price points, hand-selected from a only the most psychologically supple increments.
Re: Apple announces ‘upgrade’ to App Store pricing, adding 700 new price points
#154Will this solve the issue that the $49.99 tier equals to a 59.99 EUR price? I get a ton of messages every week by would-be Euro customers complaining why the fuck I am fleecing them with a 59.99 EUR price when the US price is $49.99 and the exchange rate is currently roughly 1:1.
The EUR price includes VAT,
Americans have this odd thing of quoting prices without tax which tends to be illegal elesewhere. OK the US does not have a sales type tax on digital goods,
Re: Apple announces ‘upgrade’ to App Store pricing, adding 700 new price points
#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The majority of New Zealand petrol stations display the fractional cent too. Same in Australia from memory.
Oh I didn't know that. They don't do this is Canada. Fuel here is priced to the tenth of a cent (192.5 cents per litre), but it's not fixed to 9/10.
Re: Apple announces ‘upgrade’ to App Store pricing, adding 700 new price points
#156Will this solve the issue that the $49.99 tier equals to a 59.99 EUR price? I get a ton of messages every week by would-be Euro customers complaining why the fuck I am fleecing them with a 59.99 EUR price when the US price is $49.99 and the exchange rate is currently roughly 1:1.
VAT, everyone forgets about it.
I had a similar conversation with someone on Twitter complaining that the latest iPhone was much more expensive in EU, but once you factored in VAT and some import costs and the fact that apple.com shows the $ price without any sales tax there wasn't actually such a great disparity.
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#157So, 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…
>but lead to "ugly" prices in other regions
Isn't this change an introduction of those ugly prices? If I'm reading the new rules correctly, Apple now supports prices like 7.39 or 37.40. I guess they don't end in a 1-4 or 6-8, but they aren't the cleanest numbers either. And if that last digit is really the problem, rounding to the nearest 5 is always a possibility.
Re: Apple announces ‘upgrade’ to App Store pricing, adding 700 new price points
#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Is it always 9/10 of a cent though, or does it vary?
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#160Still no easy way for app developers to handle upgrades. Apple really wants to push apps towards profitable but exploitative subscription pricing models.
And selling to business customers who don't have the huge IT dept. to setup a full Apple Business Account is a nightmare! Most employees use their own iPhones, and Apple specifically closed the Volume Purchase Program.
The VPP was a way for a small company to basically purchase download codes and distribute as needed.