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App's (via SDK) costs?

Apps are going to be cheap i think. Apple will obviously want some revenue from the apps market for the iPhone.. But I think that there will definitely be some developers who will give away for free such as maybe eBuddy or other MSN/Messenger developers.

With this in mind, I think that alot of free apps will probably have a change to get a "Pro" version for a small cost or some may have a "trial period" before you have to buy the full version through Apple.
 
I think that free apps will be in the minority.

Usually developers give them away because it's just too hard to collect revenue, especially with all the piracy. Not worth the effort.

But in the iPhone model, where no doubt everything will have to come through iTunes, then there's a perfect, easy, guaranteed money collection point. Even at at price of $1, you can become a millionaire.

The chance to become rich overnight is going to appeal to most writers, methinks. After that, perhaps they'll drop some freebies.
 
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don't buy the iPhone and then you'll never be subjected to future charges.
 
kdarling said:
But in the iPhone model, where no doubt everything will have to come through iTunes, then there's a perfect, easy, guaranteed money collection point. Even at at price of $1, you can become a millionaire.
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And who are we to begrudge them that chance? If by writing something 100,000s want on their iPhones then good for them.

It is a huge opportunity… iPod created a huge market for accessories and the iPhone is going to spawn a huge market for small apps… Shareware on steroids. :D:D
 
One reason why I like OSX is all the free support it has. Off the top of my head: Adium, Camino, Firefox, coconutBattery, Google Earth, Handbrake, Quicksilver, VLC, ZTerm etc. Free apps out number paid for apps 4-1 if not more on my system, why is it going to be different for iPhone. As long as Apple doesn't require all apps to be pay-for to get them on the phone I will be happy. If the developers voluntarily charge and they all do it, then that is the market.
 
Open Source.

That's all I can say really!


The market is just blowing up FULL of opensource software these days!

Firefox, openoffice and the list goes on for miles!




Also, there will always be hackers.. What are the chances of them enabling us to get apps onto our phones without going through iTunes? :)
 
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