Apple charges $99 to get into the App Store. Some freeware developers would like to recoup their costs, even if they aren't out to make money.
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Apple Provides iPhone Developers with Daily Download Stats
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Apple charges $99 to get into the App Store. Some freeware developers would like to recoup their costs, even if they aren't out to make money.
False. Many of the top 10% selling apps are priced over $4.99. There are even a few over $10. None over $20 though, so that appears to be the ceiling for a top selling app. But some specialist niche apps over $20 are probably doing well in smaller volumes.
To all those people who moan about the price of iPhone apps: please go and spend 3 - 4 months of your time, full-time, unpaid, working on learning Objective-C, Cocoa, the iPhone SDK, applying as an iPhone developer (paid), coding, testing and releasing your app on a platform that is constantly a moving target...and then sell your hard work for $0.99
If you don't want to pay for something, don't. But don't criticise anyone who's put in the hard work necessary to get an app in releasable quality on the AppStore from wanting to recoup some of their cost and maybe - just maybe - make a profit.
If you don't want to pay for something, don't. But don't criticise anyone who's put in the hard work necessary to get an app in releasable quality on the AppStore from wanting to recoup some of their cost and maybe - just maybe - make a profit.
Mine only goes back to Thursday. Hopefully when the final stats are actually given for the month I can see day-by-day statistics.
On an update day I saw about twice as many downloads. That's pretty good. I just wish I could see how many I sold the day it launched.
Looking at some of the comments here and other threads, I don't see MOST (Not all) complaining about how apps should be free but they complainthat some apps are just way over-priced and have absolutely zero reason for being so high....and judging by what apps they are talking about, some aren't selling so well (shocker)
Legitimate complaint, imo
Not that we can do anything about it but talking about apps being just grossly over-priced (and some pathetic apps wanting $10 is grossly over-priced, imo) is legitimate
Unlike the beliefs of the majority of the American population today, you are not entitled to the product of someone else's work. The developers put in the effort, they took the mental step necessary for creation, and they are fully justified in asking to be rewarded for their work.
They are welcome to charge whatever they like just as we are allowed to say that their App is over-priced and not worth what they are asking for.
I am sure some are arguing that all apps should be free and I don't agree with that whatsoever.
If an App is selling incredibly well at a high price and it is a good app, I see no problem with the price. Some apps are worth their original asking price and Some apps aren't though they sell well so more power to those developers
I can't see any place in iTunes Connect to get daily statistics, only the monthly ones. Do I have to wait until my app has been in the store for a full month? Either that or I'm going blind...
Agreed. And I know my app has had at LEAST 5 downloads.
Anyone have any idea what the download rates are today? If you're the #1 free app, how many daily downloads are you getting? What about if you're #50?