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Australians Set To Pay 50% More For Apps After Apple Price Spike (heraldsun.com.au)

Posted by samzenpus on from the more-money dept.

SlappingOysters writes: Within 36-hours the price of Apple apps is set to increase in Australia, Sweden and Indonesia. It will bring the price of buying an app out of alignment with the value of the Australian dollar, and leave the country's Apple fans paying 50% more for their iOS software than their American counterparts. It's unfortunate timing, with the recent launch of the iPhone 6s and the upcoming fourth generation of Apple TV.

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  1. This is going to cost them by cerberusss · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Whoa, this is going to cost them! Oh wait, the App Store prices have hit rock bottom for a couple of years now, so I guess this is not going to cost them hardly anything at all.

    Disclaimer: I'm an iOS developer who does barely anything in the App Store. Instead, I develop for clients who at least pay me decently.

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  2. Re:Must Be The Shipping Cost by AmiMoJo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Don't forget the cost of translating into Australian.

    This is another reason why it's good to be in the EU. Digital goods must be priced the same everywhere, and soon artificial regional restrictions will be removed so someone in the UK can buy apps on a Polish app store if they want to, and the developer must allow it. Should force the price of video games down a fair bit, for a start, and break the monopoly satellite TV channels have on certain sporting events.

    Maybe Australia should just ban regional locks and require that digital goods be priced within say 5% of the US/EU price. Or maybe apply to join the EU.

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  3. Re:Must Be The Shipping Cost by AmiMoJo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Australia would probably benefit from an influx of skilled people. It's got the space, and it does try to attract the "right" kind of immigrants with skills it wants. The problem is that Syrians are mostly Muslims, and there is a perceived culture clash. Actually Syrians are quite progressive, relatively speaking, which is why they are fleeing the hard core old-school guys from ISIS.

    It's a hard sell to people who have Pavolvian conditioning to instantly feel fear and panic when they hear words like "Islam".

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