Apple announces upgrade to App Store pricing

Re:Apple announces upgrade to App Store pricing by simonw on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @03:26PM (#33886534)

They could do that, but then users in some countries would have to pay 0.693 of their local currency or whatever. Why should the US be the only country that gets friendly looking prices?

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Re:Apple announces upgrade to App Store pricing by bmicraft on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @03:40PM (#33886700)

Or just let the dev specify if they want to round prices to some precision?

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Re:Apple announces upgrade to App Store pricing by TedDoesntTalk on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @03:51PM (#33886844)

I'm an American. I routinely buy things in GBP, EUR, and JPY and the amounts convert to an arbitrary number in USD. So what? It is displayed to me as 9.99 EUR. I understand I'm not going to have a nice, pretty .99 at the end of my credit card transaction.

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Re:Apple announces upgrade to App Store pricing by simonw on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @04:34PM (#33887376)

I would expect that the vast majority of human beings very rarely buy anything in a currency other than that of their own country.

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Re:Apple announces upgrade to App Store pricing by gumby on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @03:58PM (#33886937)

Yes, but you don't know that in the App store: you're buying from your "local" store regardless of where the developer is.

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Re:Apple announces upgrade to App Store pricing by jw1224 on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @05:59PM (#33888302)

The point is that price points already are friendly-looking in every country. Price points are adjusted in each country, they’re not a 1:1 match with $USD.

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