Apparent corporate greed

[beebarb]

Perhaps it's one of those "better late than never" type of things for them.

Maybe.

 

[A.Goldberg]

I literally can't afford the price increase.
I wouldn't be complaining if I could just 'suck it up', there have been increases before, but they were reasonable.

This increase is just evil and greedy.

I wish I could buy a lot of things, but I cannot. No matter what you buy, companies are always profiting, one way or another.

p.s. If this is that atrocious of a problem, don't buy the apps. The market will then self adjust if people stop buying. If everyone else keeps buying, you're SOL.

 

[benzslrpee]

i will be more blunt on this

1. currency fluctuation
2. market size... Australia has something around 23M in population, which is less than 10% of US population. so yeah man, things are always going to be expensive in Australia

 

[C DM]

Looks like there's some related/similar coverage of this kind of thing here at MR:

https://www.macrumors.com/2015/10/15/australia-lower-app-store-pricing/

https://www.macrumors.com/2015/10/14/apple-raises-mac-prices-international/

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

Can you imagine if American consumers boycotted the big box stores? https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-the-greedy-pig.1097296/page-2#post-11928737