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Re:Apple announces upgrade to App Store pricing by barumrho on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @02:29PM (#33885696)
This means that for foreign customers of yours, your product will have constantly fluctuating price. I personally don't find that desirable. Also, there is some considerations to be made for purchasing power especially for items like apps. $1 might be trivial in the US, but it may not be so in a third world country.
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Re:Apple announces upgrade to App Store pricing by seydor on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @02:31PM (#33885720)
that's quite desireable, i mean it's what everything else in the world does.
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Re:Apple announces upgrade to App Store pricing by delaaxe on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @02:44PM (#33885924)
No, not every good in the world is priced in US dollars and presented as a random number that changes every day
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Re:Apple announces upgrade to App Store pricing by seydor on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @02:59PM (#33886159)
pretty much every good is sold on ebay
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Re:Apple announces upgrade to App Store pricing by kergonath on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @03:24PM (#33886509)
I never buy anything in dollars on eBay. Sterling, sometimes, but it’s euros 99% of the time.

Prices on eBay actually look like something a human would choose. On AliExpress on the other hand the prices are all over the place, with really odd numbers of cents, which I assume comes from automatic conversion from whatever currency they initially priced it in (not necessarily dollars at that point).

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Re:Apple announces upgrade to App Store pricing by nicoburns on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @03:15PM (#33886398)
Not everything sold on ebay is priced in dollars either.
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Re:Apple announces upgrade to App Store pricing by seydor on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @06:27PM (#33888555)
that was my point
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Re:Apple announces upgrade to App Store pricing by xxpor on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @02:56PM (#33886116)
They could offer stickiness settings, like only change the price once the FX rate has moved 10%.
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Re:Apple announces upgrade to App Store pricing by kergonath on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @03:20PM (#33886467)
Yes, they can have a set of rules to set the prices. But then it’s not that different from the current system, which really is not problematic in the first place. I know this is the place for pedantic nit picking, but the fact that prices have some granularity is very much a non-issue.

In any case, actually probably have such rules, just not public. I am sure they have sales people being paid full time to agonise over such issues.

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Re:Apple announces upgrade to App Store pricing by dahfizz on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @08:35PM (#33889669)
Apple obviously uses some conversation rate internally when creating and updating these pre-defined tables. They could use those same numbers, with the same update frequency, with an arbitrary input price.
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