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The Trouble With the iPhone Apps Business [Behind The Curtain]
Gizmodo —
... After setting off quite a ruckus of folks accusing Hockenberry of groundless complaining, the folks at Appcubby came to the rescue with a full monty on their financial records, showing, down to the dollar, what goes into keeping food on the table for an iPhone app developer (wherein we learned just how much ...
App Store Issues Get Heated, Apple Remains Silent
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News —
... model, not a marketing tool.
Even though it may seem like Hockenberry’s “Dear Steve” letter is focused around the marketing problems some have faced with their apps, the underlying issues revolve around Apple’s entire policies with the way they manage the App Store. Something all too familiar to anyone that spends time inside the app store.
App Cubby (developers of Trip Cubby, Gas Cubby, and Cash Cubby) share some interesting information (via Gizmodo) in a post titled “Financial Realities of the App ...
The Trouble with the iPhone Apps Business…cont.
Cult of Mac —
... complaining about feeling forced to drift in a sea of 99¢ “ringtone apps,” and the inevitable charges of petulant whining that some accused him of in response, developers at Appcubby have published detailed financial records showing, down to the dollar, what goes into keeping food on the table for an iPhone app developer. ...
Financial realities of App Store – in real numbers
The Apple Core —
... on the App Store after Craig Hockenberry (IconFactory) wrote a scathing open letter to Steve Jobs. This time App Cubby developer David Barnard writes about the financial realities of the App Store – posting actual numbers from the App Cubby bank account. (I selected ...
The App Store is not a free market
The Apple Core —
... value of his products – which he has invested significant time and money to create. Many developers are not pricing their apps at a sustainable price, or even a fair value for their app, they are using price as a marketing tool. In a competitive free market, price is one of the ways to compete, and heavy competition generally leads to lower prices, but price isn’t the only way to compete. Apple itself proves that a premium product can be wildly successful. As with Barnard’s other post , it’s a ...
Opinion: 99-cent apps a steal, but who's really being robbed?
Macworld —
... , pricing two of their applications, Gas Cubby and Trip Cubby, at just 99 cents and asking for donations on the company’s Web site if users think the software is worth more. It’s a potentially risky idea, though I’m sure the data—which David has said the company will share—will be fascinating. This follows on the heels of a couple of interesting posts that David put up on App Cubby's blog about ...
Opinion: 99-cent apps a steal, but who's really being robbed?
iPhone Central —
... , pricing all of their applications, Gas Cubby, Health Cubby, and Trip Cubby, at just 99 cents and asking for donations on the company’s Web site if users think the software is worth more. It’s a potentially risky idea, though I’m sure the data—which David has said the company will share—will be fascinating. This follows on the heels of a couple of interesting posts that David put up on App Cubby's blog about ...
Thoughts on Vodafone’s Über-App-Store plans
The Next Web —
Mobile storefront openings are quite popular these days. Recently Vodafone announced plans to “Redefine the Mobile Internet Experience”. The essence of the announcement is in the first three paragraphs of their official press release:
Vodafone is to stimulate a new generation of mobile internet applications by providing internet service developers with a single point of access to Vodafone’s global customer base.
Developers will only need to create internet applications once in order to reach millions of Vodafone customers on any device and will be able to charge for it directly through ...
