{"id":3352,"date":"2011-04-28T11:57:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T16:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3352"},"modified":"2014-07-27T09:27:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T13:27:32","slug":"why-instapaper-free-is-taking-an-extended-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/28\/why-instapaper-free-is-taking-an-extended-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Instapaper Free Is Taking an Extended Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2011\/04\/28\/removed-instapaper-free\">Marco Arment<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2011\/04\/28\/removed-instapaper-free\"><p>If you have a free version of your app, <em>that will be the only version many people will ever see.<\/em> So, for the Free users, that app &#8212; that extremely limited app that lacks almost all of Instapaper&#8217;s best features &#8212; is what they think Instapaper is.<\/p>\r\n<p>I was giving them a choice: Stick with this limited app, or upgrade to the paid version with all of these great features. But since they had never used those features, they didn&rsquo;t know how much they wanted them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p>Of course, this is another reason that the App Store should support fully-featured trials.<\/p>\r\n<p>Sidenote: I would much rather pay (say) $10 for an app that I&rsquo;ve tried and know that I like, than buy a bunch of similar apps for $1-5 each and then &ldquo;throw away&rdquo; the ones that turn out not to be as good. Paying for what you use, rather that what you can be induced to buy-to-try, sends better signals to developers about what&rsquo;s good&mdash;and also would lead to more meaningful top-10 charts in the store for users.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Arment: If you have a free version of your app, that will be the only version many people will ever see. So, for the Free users, that app &#8212; that extremely limited app that lacks almost all of Instapaper&#8217;s best features &#8212; is what they think Instapaper is. I was giving them a choice: [&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":[91,101,393,31,26],"class_list":["post-3352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-business","tag-instapaper","tag-ios","tag-iosapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352","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=3352"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3359,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352\/revisions\/3359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}