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

Post by dang » Tue, Dec 06, 2022, 11:45 PM UTC

joshu wrote: post #275

dang wrote: post #165

We changed the URL from https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/12/apple-announces-bigge... to a third party article I just googled. If there's a better third-party article, we can change it again. Yes, HN has the rule "*Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ), but corporate press releases are so awful…

I know it's breaks schema but I feel like a post should be able to have multiple URLs associated with it.

Post by jsjohnst » Tue, Dec 06, 2022, 11:47 PM UTC

dhosek wrote: post #170

pasc1878 wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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,

Depends on the location. Sales taxes are determined at the state, county and municipal level and apply to different things in different places (so, for example, Illinois does not charge sales tax on magazines, but California does, and the tax rate on a single donut may be higher than the tax rate on a dozen donuts (prepared food vs groceries).

Post by slater- » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 12:00 AM UTC

crystaln wrote: post #270

So much Apple cynicism here. Apple loves design and beauty. Crisp numbers and stability are more user friendly and aesthetic. Also some numbers have implications in certain markets. Seeing numbers like or $69.42 or $444 or $7.23 is just bad all around. International price conversion while maintaining those is also challenging. Before attacking Apple policies, it's worth considering why their extremely deep design pro…

Post by richrichardsson » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 12:10 AM UTC

jameshart wrote: post #229

richrichardsson wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just to add a data point about the pronunciation; the way you've written it leads me to read it as "har-penny", which I imagine is valid, however we pronounced it in my family as "hay-penny".

Sorry, that is indeed the intended pronunciation. In fact even briefer than that: more hayp’ny. Just wanted to really get across that most importantly, the l and f are definitely both silent.

Post by yreg » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 12:16 AM UTC

tshaddox wrote: post #306

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…

I find a smaller number of price values better as a consumer, so a plausible (but much less uncharitable) interpretation could be that Apple does this because consumers prefer it.