Apple Replaces 'Free' Purchase Button Labeling With 'Get' in App Store
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Just another thing for Android users to laugh at us about.
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Apple Replaces 'Free' Purchase Button Labeling With 'Get' in App Store
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I still don't get why they called it the "Plus" instead of just using the "+" sign. There must be a lot of iPhone users whose first language is not English.
Already been there for a while.
Let's see, this is something new, and it's related to Apple...what do you know, it's news for an Apple news/rumors/discussion web site.
Now something like that would actually be useful. Simply changing all "FREE" to "GET" seems a bit useless.
I was going to post something similar, but as "GET" has probably been used for shortness, I think "FREE" and "FREE with IAP" or "FREE+IAP" would suit. GET isn't a clear enough term, it could be taken as we are not telling you the price yet, and discourage downloading.
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I think it is better. The "OPEN" and "FREE" descriptions were too similar. It was hard to distinguish them when quickly scanning through the charts.
That would be poor design and form if they had to do that. More than likely it was a constant that was defined somewhere (especially for localization purposes) where they just had to change it from "FREE" to "GET" in a single location and have that essentially automatically picked up and used where appropriate.
Having said that, perhaps this is all some sort of an experiment that wasn't supposed to go out to the public or at least not to everyone, or maybe even some sort of a mistake/mixup that might be reverted soon.
I know! Like why "GET"?
It's almost like they're saying that we MUST GET the App.
Personally I don't GET it.
Why not use INSTALL, or DOWNLOAD as someone else mentioned.
GET??? GET smart? GET stuffed? Estelle GETty?
A really odd choice of word.
GET it, got it, good! Meh! Apple are just starting to get really weird now.
I wonder if this is because of the recent South Park episode "Freemium is not free". They touched on that point pretty strongly (I know it's satire but still true).
I've had a number of new users come to me and ask how to download an app; tapping on "free" is not intuitive. It's something that most of us are used to after going from iTunes to iOS, but new users do get confused by it. Now that it's a verb, it should be more obvious.
Edit: Although showing it on the homepage is silly and looks like it may be a bug.
I know! Like why "GET"?
It's almost like they're saying that we MUST GET the App.
Personally I don't GET it.
Why not use INSTALL, or DOWNLOAD as someone else mentioned.
GET??? GET smart? GET stuffed? Estelle GETty?
A really odd choice of word.
GET it, got it, good! Meh! Apple are just starting to get really weird now.
Get goes back to the very early days of computing, check out some of the commands and command flags in FTP.
OBTAIN!!! I so much want for it to say OBTAIN!!!!!
Somebody please make a tweak and I may just consider jailbreaking.
Somebody please make a tweak and I may just consider jailbreaking.
It was a bit confusing when it said "FREE". Imagine that you have never used iOS before. How would you know to click on the "FREE" button to get something?
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The Android fans will complain so much about the pain that the App Store having a "GET" button brings them. Like, more than anyone who actually uses iOS will.
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The Android fans will complain so much about the pain that the App Store having a "GET" button brings them. Like, more than anyone who actually uses iOS will.
In the Netherlands it is download..
Here in the Netherlands is it not get but download.. see the images.
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Here in the Netherlands is it not get but download.. see the images.
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How does that relate to this?
You don't get it? People are complaining that the apps themselves are free but not in-app purchases so they need a nanny to tell them it's not "free."
Seriously. The word used is not the point. Customers need to be able to easily differentiate truly free apps from freemium apps. "Free" should still be used for $0 app with no in-app purchase option. And "Get" for $0 apps with in-app purchases available.
It's like Apple forgot to employ a user experience team.