They really need to roll out that Coda update. Coda has been stagnant for way, way too long.
This has been hashed to death in many forums. But, let's do the math anyway. As a developer, I get 70% of my sale so this comes to $5.593 per app if sold at $7.99. Average income in the US is about $35,000. To meet the avg US income I need to sell 35,000/5.593=5902 copies of an app. This is a very low number considering the number of iOS devices out there. Chances are they will sell far beyond that number.
I disagree that people are unwilling to spend that amount on apps, too.
So is this why we still don't have Coda 2.5? The current version has some bugs that really annoy me. Back in May they wrote on their blog "Coda 2.5 is essentially complete." and some stuff about how they aren't sandboxing it anymore or selling through the App Store to make the process faster. Yet it still isn't out. They've probably been working on this instead because it's a first to market type opportunity. Shucks.
That's not and never should be the customer's concern.They need to realize that developers get very little per copy. Apple takes 30% of that 99 cents you pay. How many apps would you have to sell at 99 cents each to make enough to survive and make it worth your time to keep building that app and adding features, etc.
That's not and never should be the customer's concern.
How so?You line of thinking it's the same of the people that prefers windows machines or android smartphones because "they make the same things for a better price".