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Pay a second time for iOS 7 apps
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Different business models when it comes to desktop OS/software (which is also a much older and more "established" business with a particular set of practices, etc.) and mobile OS/software.
Wow that is a great answer.
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Well the same can be said about apps on mobile software right?
Welcome to capitalism.
I'm sure there is a more detailed reason involving maximizing profit with an eye toward long term growth of the platform, but you'd have to ask Apple for more insight into their actual decision process.
In that since iOS has started we have not seen a major iOS overhaul like this, but when you have major app updates for paid apps for the most part they don't charge you money again. You were saying the Mac updates have been charging for a long time so that is why they make money off both the hardware and software updates. It sounds like you are saying the industry standard. Which I understand. I think the same can be said about mobile OS. There have been standards set for iOS for the most part that if you buy an app you are buying the updates too. It seems like this could taking advantage of Apple making a new iOS.
Could the "standard" change? Sure. But there's no real indicator that that's happening or will be happening. Given the nature of mobile OS/apps business so far it's not that likely that it will happen on a large scale and/or in a short period of time (and/or anytime soon). But, I guess we'll have to wait and see to know one way or another for sure.
One app has done this so far, ONE app. Agenda Calendar. 
When people have to completely build things from the ground up, it's expected. With Android, it was just simply changing the UI elements to "Holo", and for the most part, that wasn't a big issue. They even have a theme to fix the old Gingerbread style on ICS+.
iOS 7 is completely different. And for MOST developers, it's a task of having to completely reimagine EVERYTHING in such short notice. This is a BIG issue for the one man developers and the small teams, not so much for companies like Evernote and Amazon.
When people have to completely build things from the ground up, it's expected. With Android, it was just simply changing the UI elements to "Holo", and for the most part, that wasn't a big issue. They even have a theme to fix the old Gingerbread style on ICS+.
iOS 7 is completely different. And for MOST developers, it's a task of having to completely reimagine EVERYTHING in such short notice. This is a BIG issue for the one man developers and the small teams, not so much for companies like Evernote and Amazon.
Certainly more than a single apps has done this. Off the top of my head (and I think it was mentioned in this thread as well) there's Tapatalk that did it. And there are probably quite a few more examples out there. And that's unrelated to any OS redesigns or anything like that.One app has done this so far, ONE app. Agenda Calendar.
When people have to completely build things from the ground up, it's expected. With Android, it was just simply changing the UI elements to "Holo", and for the most part, that wasn't a big issue. They even have a theme to fix the old Gingerbread style on ICS+.
iOS 7 is completely different. And for MOST developers, it's a task of having to completely reimagine EVERYTHING in such short notice. This is a BIG issue for the one man developers and the small teams, not so much for companies like Evernote and Amazon.
iOS 7 looks different, and will likely get developers working on updates sooner or later, but it's not too likely that majority of them will decide to suddenly release those updates as separate apps that require a separate purchase just because of that. But, again, this is somewhat new territory for iOS, so to know for sure we'll mostly have to wait and see.
I agree and I guess I understand that the very small app makers that need the money should charge, but the big boys now way.
Would it really help all of the developers? It seems that so many people do not want to buy apps already and once they bought them they would probably not even want to update them to the new version if they had to pay for it again. Unless the person really enjoys that apps and sees that the update is very important and useful.