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$0.99 Cent App Dilemma
I’ve never purchased an iPhone App that cost more than $1.99. There is an abundance of exceptional Apps that I’m sure they’re worth paying the full price but unfortunately you don’t necessarily know how great they might be until you’ve purchased it and if that means paying $9.99 for it and you end up not too fond of it, then you just lost out on $9.99. Craig Hockenberry explains why this attitude and how they as developers are suffering from it:From what I can tell, it’s because people are buying our products sight unseen. I see customers complaining about how “expensive” a $4.99 app is and that it should cost less. The only justification I can find for these attitudes is that you only have a screenshot to evaluate the quality of a product. A buck is easy to waste on an app that looks great in iTunes but works poorly once you install it.
To avoid all this hesitance, Apple should have the option of downloading a 1-day trial for every App, with the exception of FREE ones of course, so if it appeals to someone, they’ll be more incline to paying full price on it based on their experience and not just on reviews and screenshots.Developers would benefit in not feeling the need of downgrading a worthy $9.99 App to 99 cents, just for the sake of gaining popularity and breaking even with all their time, effort and money in developing.
