View Full Version : Has anyone seen this Open Letter to Steve?
http://furbo.org/2008/12/09/ring-tone-apps/
http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/12/10/trouble-in-the-99-cent-app-store/
I'd say pricing is just fine and I don't really think it will "choke off" development of new/better apps. I'd assume differently, that keeping low pricing will force innovative costing measures to bring those great apps down to the $1 demand level.
Astro_Digital
12-10-2008, 03:39 PM
I read it kind of boring but I read it.
What they do not think iPod owners are cheap? What a news flash.
bobb-mini
12-10-2008, 04:31 PM
What I don't understand is, Apple BEGGED developers to write for the Mac, yet with iPhone, it seems only reluctantly Jobs allowed third party apps. What the explanation? (hoping for thoughtful/knowledgeable replies).
deftdrummer1
12-13-2008, 12:59 AM
Bob the climate has really changed since the days that Mac's were a niche market, as I'm sure you already know. More importantly, the success of the iphone has become so prominent that Apple and Co. could no longer hold out on the third party application market. The complete success of their product depended on it, as it did with mac computers. At the same time, Jobs wanted to maintain consistency with the OS and create a stable environment. It is my opinion that they had to let third party apps on the iphone or it would flounder. It was only a matter of time before RIM or whoever (microsoft) introduced their own app stores that would destroy other app stores, because nothing really existed before Apple's app store.
As far as the open letter to Steve Jobs, I find it to be a bit whiney. Sure apps are getting bumped to the top prematurely, but these developers need to understand what kind of market they've gotten themselves into. In the early days of the app store it was open season and nobody really knew what to expect in terms of pricing, availability, apple's walled garden etc etc. Its been quite some time now and the market is starting to flesh out, so its a little too late to complain. As the old mantra goes: "don't hate the player, hate the game."