Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader

Re:Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader by dingaling on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @04:21AM (#19197694)

> our fellow developer deserves to get paid for their clearly awesome work

I agree, but it highlights the many-small-cuts problem

$5 for an eReader, then a mapping app, file manager, photo editor, mail client... the list of developers deserving support is longer than most people can afford. Eventually a choice has to be made to prioritise. For many people that will mean that a less-used category of app can be fulfilled from F-Droid instead of paying for a more-polished one.

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Re:Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader by taude on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @10:38AM (#19199634)

Wait, so there's say 20 apps someone uses, maybe average $5/each, that's $100 for apps on a device you might pay $800+ for? Doesn't seem that ridiculous....

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Re:Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader by nambit on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @06:04AM (#19198123)

Is it really that great? How many apps do we use in our day to day life? Let's say 20 apps that we use regularly.

Is $100 too much for lifetime access to these apps?

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Re:Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader by Kaiyou on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @08:40AM (#19198847)

Lifetime is very misleading. I expect smartphones and apps to become obsolete over the next 40 years. Just like pretty much everything software from 40 years ago is obsolete now.

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Re:Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader by taude on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @10:39AM (#19199645)

Lifetime in software assumes the lifetime of the app, not the user.

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