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majicjungle.com - 2/16/2009
App Store Marketing
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App Store I’ve had an iPhone app peak at #13 priced at $7.99, dropped the price to $0.99 four months later, and seen it rise to #2. I’ve also had an iPhone app that has not yet come close to paying me for the work I put into it. But since the App Store launched in July [...]
itunes.apple.com - 2/12/2009
iTunes: Ethan Nicholas - iShoot
— itunes.apple.com — Battle your friends on the computer as you compete to be the last tank standing in this... new take on the classic artillery game genre. (more) iTunes: Ethan Nicholas - iShoot

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The Experiment | None
appcubby.com - 2/10/2009
The Experiment | None
— appcubby.com — This post may make a bit more sense in light of my two prior posts: " Financial... Realities of the App Store " and " App Store Pricing (It's not a free market!) " With App Store shoppers seemingly hesitant to risk $5+ on a new app, I decided to do a ... (more) The Experiment | None

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daringfireball.net - 2/12/2009
★ Anti-Bootlegging Measures and the iPhone App Store
— daringfireball.net — Marco Arment , responding to my expectation that iPhone developers are set to begin implementing their own... anti-bootlegging measures: The ideal piracy detection system doesn’t make it immediately obvious to the crackers that their efforts have ... (more) ★ Anti-Bootlegging Measures and the iPhone App Store

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iPhone Savior:  Navigating The App Store Pricing Wars

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Navigating The App Store Pricing Wars
iPhone Savior — ... David Frampton, also supports the madness of making your app free for a season in order to capture the attention of "Freetards", as Frampton likes to calls them. "iPhone owners are about 250 times more likely to download a free app than a 99c. People are way, way, way more keen to download whatever crap they can get for free than anything half decent that costs a dollar." Frampton writes in his timely post. [Read: "App Store Marketing" ]

Raising prices
furbo.org — Many of you are starting to realize that a ringtone price point does not sustain a business. I’m with you. Lately, I’ve been thinking about ways to make higher prices more palatable to customers. Several discussions at Macworld kicked off these thoughts, and a recent tweet by Justin Williams made me realize that a lot of you could benefit from these ideas. Hopefully, this short essay will help us all make it through the App Store gold rush. The first thing to do is think about a “Lite” or ad-supported version of your ...

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