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A comment on Apple's Answer on Upgrade Pricing.

Re:Apple's Answer on Upgrade Pricing by ctdonath on Friday July 19, 2013 @01:42PM (#6071673)
One issue: how to move data from old app to new - and separate - app? On a Mac it's easy, because everything has access to the full file system. On iOS, apps are blocked from anything outside their "sandbox". I gave up on one desirable iOS app because I'd entered a pile of data in the free version, and couldn't move any of it to the new/paid version.
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Re:Apple's Answer on Upgrade Pricing by kalleboo on Friday July 19, 2013 @01:51PM (#6071729)
I presume Apple would say "Your app should already be storing all it's data in iCloud"
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Re:Apple's Answer on Upgrade Pricing by shadesandcolour on Friday July 19, 2013 @02:47PM (#6072088)
With iCloud this is super easy (or the new dropbox apis), but if the developer has set it up properly, there are a few ways to migrate data. It can be encoded and opened up as a url is the easiest way that I can think of.
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Re:Apple's Answer on Upgrade Pricing by mikeash on Friday July 19, 2013 @01:57PM (#6071768)
Mac App Store apps are also sandboxed, so the same problem would arise.
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