Comments on: Great AppStore Article

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:07:39 +0000

@Boon: Except that we made as good of a living selling software at twice the price and we’re not doing significantly better on iPhone than we did in other markets (that is to say, it’s doing well just like our other platforms do well).

I’d argue that the success of the AppStore is more about placement and publicity. Windows has had mobile devices with great software for more than 10 years, but have you ever seen a “There’s an App for that!” ad for Windows Mobile?

At the same time, even if we thought we could charge more and not get priced out of the market, without a method of trialing software, it’s REALLY tough to get someone to shell out $20 blindly.

@EVERYONE: I have to close comments for this post. For some reason the words of the post draws spammers in like flies to a picnic. I spend every morning whacking spam comments that are clever enough to bypass the spam filters.

By: Boon Chye

Boon Chye — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:44:22 +0000

The reason why the app store is a success is that there are many free and low price apps sold.

If the pricing is going to increase tremenously over time, it will add up to the overall cost of owning iPhones.

That will decrease the popularity of iPhone for me. I still cannot understand why I need to pay much more on windows mobile compare to iphone.

By: Kevin White

Kevin White — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:04:07 +0000

My personal take on this is that Apple is very slowly fixing the app store. I think they’ve basically gone and done the minimum required to make the store usable, and are slowly trickling in improvements, much the way they did with the phone’s OS in general.

Maybe that’s just the fanboy in me…

By: Maurizio

Maurizio — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:27:06 +0000

When is planned ListPro for iPhone ?

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:46:33 +0000

@John: No no. That’s not it at all. It’s an observation that I think is relevant. In fact, I think it is likely that (based on past experience) Apple will do SOMETHING to address this – but bringing it to their attention is the first step.

As for ListPro and Mac OSX, we still plan to release them. No change there.

By: make-up artist

make-up artist — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:33:04 +0000

I want ListPro!..

By: John

John — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:12:56 +0000

I hope this post is not a precursor for why there is no longer a plan to release eWallet for OSX and ListPro for iPhone.

By: Tom from Herbal Fiberblend

Tom from Herbal Fiberblend — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:16:15 +0000

It is true that the App store has gone downhill in terms and quality and increased in quantity but i think in an ‘immature’ industry that is inevitable and it will stablise at the industry moves forward in the future – right now there are a lot of people involved, too many perhaps, this will change I believe.