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iPhone App Pricing Limits Developers
HardYakka writes "According to this post in the Fortune blog, the iTunes app store has been a boon for users but some developers are saying the number of free and 99 cent apps make it difficult for developers to create complex, higher priced apps. Craig Hockenberry of Iconfactory says the iPhone may never get its killer app like the spreadsheet was for the Mac.
If Apple does not do something, the store will be left with only ring tones and simple games. Some are suggesting that overpaid developers are the problem and the recession will soon lower the wages and costs for complex apps."
Let's see...
I want a high quality OS, that has many expensive alternatives and ALSO not pay for it: Linux
I want high quality applications and NOT pay for them as well: MySQL/Postgres/Gimp
How do these companies make money when they give away their products? They sell services and support.
So all of you that push FREE open source software; congrats you got it on the iPhone as well. Developers need to find another revenue stream than trying to sell a million copies at pennies per copy until someone wants to sell something for cheaper that is "close enough."
CMYK is device-dependent and not orthagonal.
You have to convert anyway. You might as well work in a colorspace with tolerable math properties.
Conversion belongs in your printer driver or in the printer itself.
Direct editing of CMYK makes people feel special. They get to pretend they are all professional. It's pure idiocy.
So wait, you're complaining that your costs are high and you have to compete with cheaper, inferior products? What is Apple supposed to do? Figure out how to lower your cost, or raise prices and market more. Convince people that your app is worth paying a few more dollars for. You don't even have a solution, all I hear is whining...
First post! (just in case I am...)
Hard to take something seriously when they claim the spreadsheet is why the mac is so great.
Wait, the spreadsheet was out before the Lisa. Which is the PREDECESSOR to the Mac.
Which pretty much makes the rest of the story drivel.
And, I have to wonder, where are all the F/OSS people now, when Apple Developers are complaining that low cost software is keeping them from selling their high cost software. What about FREE?
When is someone going to point that out? Awwhh... The POOR POOR apple devs (yeah, that's an oxymoron) not getting paid after screaming for so long that F/OSS is the ONLY way of the future.
Amazing, the economy falls apart, and LOTS of people advocating F/OSS start bitching about two or three dollars profit.?????
Just food for thought, and readying myself for troll status.
--Toll_Free