{"id":4027,"date":"2011-11-28T15:33:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T20:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4027"},"modified":"2011-11-28T15:33:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T20:33:32","slug":"you-guys-are-millionaires-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/28\/you-guys-are-millionaires-right\/","title":{"rendered":"You Guys Are Millionaires Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shiftyjelly.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/22\/you-guys-are-millionaires-right\/\">shiftyjelly<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/shiftyjelly.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/22\/you-guys-are-millionaires-right\/\"><p>Let&rsquo;s not even get into the long debates you get into with people about whether they should buy your $1.99 app. People will spend hours researching a $2 purchase, browsing reviews, emailing the developer, checking online forums. Then they will go to a coffee shop they&rsquo;ve never been before and buy a $4 coffee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For me, it&rsquo;s not that I&rsquo;m unwilling to spend $2 on an app, but that I have a kind of psychological block against paying for an app that, statistically speaking, I will probably never use. My guess is that 50% of the apps I purchase only get launched once; I immediately saw that they didn&rsquo;t meet my needs in some way. Probably only 10% make it past the first month. And this is after I&rsquo;ve spent some time trying to make semi-informed purchases. It would probably be a more efficient use of my time to research less and buy-and-throw-away an even higher percentage of apps.<\/p>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t buy coffee, but I imagine the thought process there is that you&rsquo;re guaranteed a warm, caffeinated beverage. It may not be great, but it will be serviceable. With an app, it&rsquo;s likely that you&rsquo;ll have no use for what you just purchased.<\/p>\n<p>On the Mac side, most apps have trials, and I&rsquo;m quick to spend $20&#8211;50 because I can see right away that the app does what I want.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>shiftyjelly: Let&rsquo;s not even get into the long debates you get into with people about whether they should buy your $1.99 app. People will spend hours researching a $2 purchase, browsing reviews, emailing the developer, checking online forums. Then they will go to a coffee shop they&rsquo;ve never been before and buy a $4 coffee. [&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-4027","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\/4027","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=4027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4028,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions\/4028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}