Apple Raising App Store Pricing in Canada and Six Other Markets

[Gasu E.]

Jesus ****ing christ Apple, can you stop constantly raising prices in non-US countries? I know that the Canadian dollar sucks right now, but you have HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars and you can't accept losing a few pennies? Goddamn idiots!

EDIT: Everyone who replied to my post completely missed my point. The Canadian dollar is decreasing every day, which hurts everyone except people who get paid in USD or Americans who shop in Canada. Apple increases the price of all their products to reflect the horrible rate, which hurts us even more, so of course I'm pissed. And some of you will say, "well uh consider urself lucky cuz its cheper 4 u", and to that I hope you realise that our salaries don't increase, so...

These are not "their" products. These are third-party apps. 70% of the price goes to the developers. This is more about app developers not being forced to cut their prices to your currency's weakness.

And to be precise, Apple isn't changing product prices, but tier prices. That means App developers who disagree with this increase could choose to lower their prices by moving to a lower tier.
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What bull****, everything costs more in Canada. Hey US citizens, would you pay $45 for a 24 of beer, I think not.

Depends on the beer. My beer doesn't comes in 24s; but I'd easily pay that for 24 bottles. In USD.

 

[gnasher729]

Can't believe they didn't pass the Romanian VAT decrease onto consumers!

The Europeen Commission can just add that to their 8bn euros.

They passed it on to developers. Anyway, prices are rounded. Let's say 1.70 of your currency is worth one dollar, then then tiers are likely $0.99 -> 1.99, $1.99 -> 2.99, $2.99 -> 4.99 and so on.

But you seem to be under the impression that Apple has to pay 8bn euros for some reason. They don't. 8bn is a random number that someone working for Bloomberg calculated.

 

[oneshotpro]

Because the Canadian dollar only was worth more than the US dollar for a few months and the difference was less than 5 cents.

When the Canadian dollar was on par with the US, Apple CHANGED their prices to match the US prices. At that time there was no App Store but all the hardware prices were on par with the US. When/if the dollar goes back up you can rest assure apple will adjust the App Store & Hardware prices to match the US. You don't see apple charging europeans 99p for apps but instead they pay 79p because it is worth more.

Take your blinders off, they are actually playing very fair.


What if your employer started paying you less because they are selling more to Canadians and not US customers? That is what you are asking Apple to do. Pay developers less for each sale in another country.

If you sell the app in another country, you should be expect to paid in that countries amount not US, its irrelevant if you live in the US or not as a developer. Apple is also not looking out for the developer, but their own shareholders. Thats's it.

Also, actually, when apple changed hardware prices recently they added an extra $40 in it on top of the currency change. so, take your blinders off.

 

[Crzyrio]

If you sell the app in another country, you should be expect to paid in that countries amount not US, its irrelevant if you live in the US or not as a developer. Apple is also not looking out for the developer, but their own shareholders. Thats's it.

Also, actually, when apple changed hardware prices recently they added an extra $40 in it on top of the currency change. so, take your blinders off.

you are right, Apple is only looking at their bottom line, either way why should someone who lives in France have to pay more for a app than someone in China?

Should a car sold in US for $15,000 also sell in Europe for 15,000 Euros? What exactly are you suggesting lol
What is 'that countries amount'?

If a company has a product that cost $100 USD to make and adds $50 USD margin should they sell it for $150 Canadian dollars too and make only $3 in Canadian sales?


They have access to much more information than we do and likely added that $40 as a safety net. Would you rather they adjust their hardware prices daily? At THAT particular time it might have been $40 more but look at the prices today.


13in Macbook Pro (US) = $1299 US

13in Macbook Pro (CAD) = $1549 CAD

$1 USD = $1.45 CAD

So $1299 USD ~ $1880 CAD

 

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The NZ store is now using the new pricing, but there are some promotional titles for $0.99.