It is not a new topic, but it is worth a reminder:
Music artists charge for their next album, they don’t sell one album and just keep adding and remixing songs for an all inclusive price. The same goes for movies, books, games or any other digital or physical product.
Software is the outlier. As I write this, I can’t think of any other business where the customer pays just once and receives free updates and improvements for life. But yet this is how the App Store has been setup for software developers. It’s simply not sustainable.
Paid upgrades reward continued development of an app. The developer gets paid for their work and users get more of the app they love. For a sustainable app ecosystem, things need to change.
If the App Store never offers developers the options for paid upgrades, it will continue to encourage a culture of disposable one time apps. This is not good news for developers, Apple or our mutual customers.
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
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