How much to charge for your Web App?

Re:How much to charge for your Web App? by potatolicious on Sunday January 10, 2010 @07:34AM (#1042994)

"In the user's mind there is (or starting to be?) a huge distinction between the two."

Actually, I'd venture to say that the distinction between the two is shrinking, and will continue to do so in the future.

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Re:How much to charge for your Web App? by ohashi on Sunday January 10, 2010 @08:55AM (#1043063)

Why do you think that?

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Re:How much to charge for your Web App? by jackowayed on Sunday January 10, 2010 @12:15PM (#1043306)

Because if you go back, say, 20 years, no one would pay anything that wasn't physical. It just didn't make sense to people back then. There was no reason to.

Now computers are so ubiquitous and powerful that people pay for "virtual" things all the time. They pay to download that song off of iTunes. They pay to download that iPhone app. Hell, they pay for "land" in Second Life and "money" in Farmville.

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Re:How much to charge for your Web App? by ohashi on Sunday January 10, 2010 @02:38PM (#1043517)

That doesn't mean they see real products and virtual products as equal. It is simply acknowledging that virtual products exist.

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Re:How much to charge for your Web App? by jackowayed on Sunday January 10, 2010 @02:44PM (#1043526)

I wasn't saying they see them as equal. I'm saying they see them as more equal than they did when virtual products were seen as totally worthless.

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Re:How much to charge for your Web App? by ohashi on Sunday January 10, 2010 @09:34PM (#1044163)

I see your point, I would counter that users almost expect everything for free these days and getting them to pay is harder than it was before, but easier than originally?

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