{"id":25713,"date":"2019-06-18T16:17:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T20:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=25713"},"modified":"2019-06-18T16:17:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T20:17:22","slug":"business-model-and-pricing-for-unread-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/18\/business-model-and-pricing-for-unread-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Model and Pricing for Unread 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldenhillsoftware.com\/2019\/06\/business-model-and-pricing-for-unread-2\/\">John Brayton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.goldenhillsoftware.com\/2019\/06\/business-model-and-pricing-for-unread-2\/\">\n<p>I am not ready to announce new capabilities of Unread 2 yet, but I do want to prepare customers for the change in pricing and business model. Like the current shipping version, Unread 2 will be free to download and to try with some functional limits. After trying the app customers will be able to unlock the full version by purchasing a $19.99\/year (USD) subscription.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I believe this business model change is necessary in order to provide a solid foundation for Unread&rsquo;s future development. In addition this will allow me to release new functionality as soon as it is ready. Unread 2 includes capabilities that I wanted to ship over a year ago. I could have done so if I had a good way to be paid for that work. This business model change will provide that flexibility.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/02\/golden-hill-software-acquires-unread\/\">Golden Hill Software Acquires Unread<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/20\/productivity-apps-and-subscription-pricing\/\">Productivity Apps and Subscription Pricing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Brayton: I am not ready to announce new capabilities of Unread 2 yet, but I do want to prepare customers for the change in pricing and business model. Like the current shipping version, Unread 2 will be free to download and to try with some functional limits. After trying the app customers will be [&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":"2019-06-18T20:17:25Z","apple_news_api_id":"e45a4f50-d554-45b7-af42-c83356a8cffc","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-06-18T20:17:27Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A5FpPUNVURbevQsgzVqjP_A","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":[1421,101,31,1610,26,52,1553],"class_list":["post-25713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-app-subscriptions","tag-business","tag-ios","tag-ios-12","tag-iosapp","tag-rss","tag-unread-app"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25713","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=25713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25714,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25713\/revisions\/25714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}