{"id":65,"date":"2014-10-23T10:22:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T14:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucvandal.com\/?p=65"},"modified":"2014-10-23T10:22:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T14:22:59","slug":"price-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/23\/price-trolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Price Trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"

$4.99. This is the price you’ll have to pay for Pixelmator<\/a>, a desktop-class photo editor<\/a>. I don’t know if the ridiculously low price was set at\u00a0Apple’s request (a $19.99 price tag at the end of a Keynote demo would have much less impact) but if this trend continues it may hurt the App Store on the long run.<\/p>\n

Of course, the makers of Pixelmator can afford such a low price since they’ll get a ton of promotion and the download volume will make up for it but this is not the case for\u00a0most\u00a0developers.<\/p>\n

It sends the message to consumers\u00a0that they shouldn’t pay much for quality software and that developers asking for a fair price are greedy. Eventually, it will be no longer profitable to develop for the platform and we’ll start seeing less quality apps on the App Store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

$4.99. This is the price you’ll have to pay for Pixelmator, a desktop-class photo editor. I don’t know if the ridiculously low price was set at\u00a0Apple’s request (a $19.99 price tag at the end of a Keynote demo would have much less impact) but if this trend continues it may hurt the App Store on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}