{"id":1842,"date":"2008-12-13T00:43:51","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T04:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2008-12-13T00:46:40","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T04:46:40","slug":"the-99-cent-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/13\/the-99-cent-message\/","title":{"rendered":"The 99-cent Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manton.org\/2008\/12\/the_99cent_message.html\">Manton Reece<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.manton.org\/2008\/12\/the_99cent_message.html\">\n<p>I&rsquo;ve bought apps for $5 and $10, and now many of those prices have either been cut in half or lowered to 99 cents. I felt like I got my money&rsquo;s worth at the higher price, so I&rsquo;m not complaining that I was ripped off. Instead, I just feel like a fool.&#8230;Apparently the way to buy iPhone software is just to wait a month for the price to drop.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed. When apps I&rsquo;ve bought go on sale, their icons get &ldquo;Sale&rdquo; badges in my iTunes Applications pane. I <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/15\/something-new\/\">already<\/a> feel somewhat like a fool for the apps that I wouldn&rsquo;t have bought if there had been a trial available. Now there&rsquo;s a way to reduce the satisfaction of having purchased an app that I <em>do<\/em> like.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manton Reece: I&rsquo;ve bought apps for $5 and $10, and now many of those prices have either been cut in half or lowered to 99 cents. I felt like I got my money&rsquo;s worth at the higher price, so I&rsquo;m not complaining that I was ripped off. Instead, I just feel like a fool.&#8230;Apparently the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}