hmmm i dont recall complaining once. i am buying my phone tomorrow and i can afford it. i just didnt expect high costs like that on apps and it peaked my curiosity and couldnt look it up myself!
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hmmm i dont recall complaining once. i am buying my phone tomorrow and i can afford it. i just didnt expect high costs like that on apps and it peaked my curiosity and couldnt look it up myself!
Neither are Mercedes, Bmerses and Lexus's (Lexi?) 
but you see them parked in places that will surprise you.
but you see them parked in places that will surprise you.
Neither are Mercedes, Bmerses and Lexus's (Lexi?)
And why they're parked there might surprise you (or who the owner is).
Most apps are free or less than a $1.00
Why would you care that one or two apps are over $20?
The thread title implies that the Apple Store Apps are priced high, which by any measurement does not seem to be true.
Neither are Mercedes, Bmerses and Lexus's (Lexi?)
I am going to shoplift in the App Store.
from running through itunes app store just now it looks to be 10+ over 25 dollars. Mostly dictionaries and bible programs. I dont care that they are that much ... as i believe the original post said -- I was at work and just curious WHAT they were -- not why they cost that much.
It's a store. Standard retail store marketing rules apply. If some percentage of your customers can afford to buy gold plated widgets, then you stock some gold plated widgets on the shelves and profit from the occasional sale. Plus it makes the standard cardboard widgets on the next shelf over look like so much of a better deal to most other customers.
I was making polite conversation with a Benz M-class owner at a laundromat when our washing machine broke and he said he didn't even have one(washing machine.)
On topic, is there a limit a Developer can charge for an App?
You're complaining because an app doesn't take up space on your device?
Come oonnnn....
how can u say in general there over priced when the vast majority are less than 10? as well as over 100 (and soon to be plenty more) are free?
I think he's complaining you pay a lot of money for a little.
SuperMB $10 - 35.2 MB
Foreflight $70 - 4.5 MB
Texas Hold'em $5 - 128 MB
thats rediculous, the size of the app doesnt dictate its quality, especially if they do different things.
The size of an app is mostly related to the amount of built in music and graphics. That may or may not have anthing to do with an apps "quality".
You can unzip an app, open it up the package in Finder, and examine the size of its contents. The small app I examined was more than 2/3rds images.
I'm surprised that no one has put up a really expensive app yet (a tire rotation reminder app for Ferrari's, or somesuch), just to see if anyone would bite.
This isn't such a silly idea - the handling in my F50 can get rough if I miss a rotation.
i was responding to a person who seems to think that apps should be sold by the byte apparantly, when he was upset that a 70 mb app cost less than a 10 mb one.
Ack, I don't think that way, and never did. I was just trying to explain what I thought Ninja Dom's thought processes were.
lol my bad, my speculation of your speculation of the thoughts of some other dudes thoughts were wrong
ForeFlight app size
FYI (regarding app size)
I'm one of the developers on the ForeFlight team. The reason ForeFlight Mobile is so small is because all of the data is time sensitive (weather, FAA alerts, etc) and lives on our servers. I don't have the exact count in front of me, but it's multiple GB. As users access the data, some of it is pulled down to their iPhone & cached for later use.
FYI (regarding app size)
I'm one of the developers on the ForeFlight team. The reason ForeFlight Mobile is so small is because all of the data is time sensitive (weather, FAA alerts, etc) and lives on our servers. I don't have the exact count in front of me, but it's multiple GB. As users access the data, some of it is pulled down to their iPhone & cached for later use.
It's an app for pilots... Airport information, METARs, TAFs, aviation weather imagery, flight plan filing, etc etc... if you didn't understand any part of that, it's probably not for you
Netter's Anatomy and Netter's Neuroscience flash cards are both $40.
thats unfortunate cause you have too turn off cellular networks on planes lmao!
People need to understand the economics of pricing. If you have an app that will be extremely useful to a relatively small number of people, it's going to cost a lot.
It's not meant to be at a price that everyone can afford, because very few people have any use for it. But the people who do need it will pay a large sum for it.
It's not meant to be at a price that everyone can afford, because very few people have any use for it. But the people who do need it will pay a large sum for it.
It's fascinating how much attention your app is getting just because it's the "most expensive." My dad is a pilot and this is a trivial amount of money compared to what they spend on other devices/subscriptions. Sounds like a really nice product that has been very carefully programmed. I wouldn't be surprised to hear of pilots buying iPhones just to get this app. So they might be spending $300 plus $75 a month just to get a $69 application!