Who's Really Winning in the App Store?
I've been fascinated by the developers of apps in the iTunes app store. Pricing seems to be a big issue with developers. I often wonder who's right.
A recent post at FingerGaming names the top paid games and points out that major franchise titles are having trouble competing with cheap no-name games.
The thing to consider when talking about higher priced apps competing with the $0.99 crew is that the $0.99 folks are only just beating them out in terms of volume, but not dollars.
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Are iTunes App Store Prices Too Low?
If you sell something for $100 people will say it should be $90 you can sell the same thing for $90 and people will say it should be $70. Produce apps that are worth more than $0.99 and people will buy them. Read more [...]
Lonely Planet Getting it All Wrong
Today I decided I'd like to buy a Lonely Planet travel guide. I have an iPod Touch now so I though, maybe since they have all those snazy phrase books as apps for the iPhone / Touch they have PDF's of their books. Read more [...]
Remove the Arrows in iTunes
Open the Terminal application (look in the applications folder, then the system utilities folder). Then just paste this line into the terminal and hit return: defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-store-arrow-links -bool FALSE Want those goofy annoying arrows back? Read more [...]
The OiNK According to Trent Reznor
I'm not saying that I think OiNK is morally correct, but I do know that it existed because it filled a void of what people want." The market has been telling the industry what it wants for years now, wonder when the music industry will get a clue. Read more [...]
Tentative Review of Hulu
NBC broke away from iTunes to offer its shows through Amazon (which only works on a Windows PC— no iPods etc) and through their new venture Hulu. Apple offered NBC a revenue stream, free promotion, free bandwidth and an attractive and simple delivery package— it is hard to see how spending hundreds of millions of dollars to try and feebly push customers back into an old business model will work out well. Read more [...]
iPod Touch, Ten Million Apple Geeks Collectively Groan
After years of a rumored touchscreen iPod Apple finally unveiled the iPod Touch. Not big enough for me....I'll be going with the 160gb ipod classic For the first time in my Apple life I am actually angry with an announcement.... Read more [...]
The New DRM Class-System
The rich suburban kid buying the $26 shirt is the same one that is going to be able to buy the DRM free music, while the people in a less financially position will be forced to choose DRM burdened music. Read more [...]
iLAS 1.0beta
Hey people, iLAS is back and better than ever... download • more details • donate changes: there shouldn't be anymore of the "jlink" business you can make up whatever crazy genre you'd like, iLAS doesn't care Read more [...]
