Until today App World developers were forced to price their apps from $2.99 or up. This was arguably both a good and bad thing based on what side of the fence you sit on. Other app stores are full of 99 cent apps which leads to quite a few one trick pony apps. I used to think that the $2.99 price point was intended to promote quality apps but I may have been wrong.
RIM let us know that as of today developers will be able to price their apps at $0.99 and $1.99. This leads me to believe that the reason for the $2.99 price point was because of PayPal. Now that RIM has carrier billing and credit card billing along with the new 70/30 revenue share with developers things have changed.
So I am curious what you think of these new lower price points in App World:
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Smiley Not Registered
Posted: August 19, 2010 at 6:24 PM EST
hmmm… i might have missed the 60/40 ratio. I thought it was 70/30.
papped ( View Profile) - Posts: 153
Posted: August 19, 2010 at 7:09 PM EST
Little bit of column A, little bit of column B.
Corey Davis ( View Profile) - Posts: 1293
Posted: August 19, 2010 at 9:35 PM EST from my BlackBerry 9630
I think its a good move to have cheaper apps. ITunes has those and there are spam apps. They just have to watch the app approval process!
DavidB ( View Profile) - Posts: 1791
Posted: August 20, 2010 at 1:13 AM EST from my BlackBerry 9530
It will mean more apps for sure. And if there ARE a slew of “slam apps” it means devs think BlackBerry users are worth targeting. I say if we don’t see a bunch soon, not that I want em mind you , it means even spam devs have given up on BlackBerry.
Luis Merlos ( View Profile) - Posts: 1312
Posted: August 20, 2010 at 9:50 AM EST from my BlackBerry 9700
Your right is 70/30
bryan Not Registered
Posted: August 20, 2010 at 12:49 PM EST
show me other methods of payment and then we’ll talk