App Store Pricing (It's not a free market)

Re:App Store Pricing (It's not a free market) by boucher on Friday December 19, 2008 @06:43PM (#404004)

It's a huge mistake to buy into the argument that you need to sell at $0.99 to make any money. More than half of the top 100 paid apps on the store cost more than $0.99. Many of those cost >$5.

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Re:App Store Pricing (It's not a free market) by meterplech on Saturday December 20, 2008 @01:11AM (#404342)

true, but as we have discussed, the apps at each position can get tenfold the sales of lower positions. selling 13k apps a day for 99c a la Ocarina is obviously advantageous over selling 200 a day for $10 each if you have the number 100 spot. No one is saying its impossible to make money with apps priced > 99c, its just a lot easier if they are

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Re:App Store Pricing (It's not a free market) by boucher on Saturday December 20, 2008 @01:32AM (#404359)

But the number one app on the store, the one selling "13k a day", costs $10 right now. The number 5 app costs $5. Clearly price is not the determining factor.

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