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Re:Little Snitch Mini by JasonZ2 on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @08:52PM (#35269199)
I have to download and install the app to see how much it costs?

They don't even list the price along with their other products: https://obdev.at/shop/index.html

Re:Little Snitch Mini by happybuy on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @09:05PM (#35269294)
I know from personal experience of making and selling an App Store app [1] that it can be difficult to show accurate pricing on your products website.

There can be 175+ different territories that you may sell an app in, each with a different local price point. You also can't expect to simply show a converted $US dollar amount either as you may want to do price discrimination (so that the app is cheaper for regions that cannot afford the exact $US equivalent).

Overall options seem to be:

1. Don't show pricing and leave it for the App Store to display - the most common approach

2. Only show $US pricing on the website and let non-US customers manually translate to their local pricing - not a great experience for non-US users

3. Manually or automatically sync pricing on the website display with the actual current App Store pricing. This is quite a labour or integration intensive task and I've only seen this been done by large vendors

[1] https://www.magiclasso.co/

Re:Little Snitch Mini by JasonZ2 on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @09:34PM (#35269451)
Sounds like an excuse to just not display the price.

> 2. Only show $US pricing on the website and let non-US customers manually translate to their local pricing - not a great experience for non-US users

It's a worse experience for someone to convert USD to their currency (instant mentally or 2 seconds on Google) compared to launching the app store, installing the app, getting to the purchase menu, and seeing the price?

Re:Little Snitch Mini by bendiksolheim on Thursday March 23, 2023 @02:41AM (#35271187)
You don’t need to install the app, the prices are displayed on the product page in the App Store, towards the bottom. It’s listed automatically for all apps.