{"id":7293,"date":"2013-04-14T22:40:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T03:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7293"},"modified":"2013-04-14T22:40:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T03:40:09","slug":"cant-buy-a-thrill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/14\/cant-buy-a-thrill\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&rsquo;t Buy a Thrill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.subfurther.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/14\/cant-buy-a-thrill\/\">Chris Adamson<\/a> responds to <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/01\/understanding-app-store-pricing\/\">Michael Jurewitz<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2032847\/a-5-app-isnt-expensive-customers-need-to-help-fix-the-app-store-economy.html\">Lex Friedman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.subfurther.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/14\/cant-buy-a-thrill\/\"><p>So what&rsquo;s the proper response? Obviously: don&rsquo;t write apps for sale in the App Store anymore. <b>This has already happened.<\/b> But it hasn&rsquo;t manifested itself as a mass migration off the iOS platform (what, like Android users are any more willing to pay for apps?), but instead a migration into what one article (that I can&rsquo;t find!) called the &ldquo;middle class of developers making apps for corporate clients&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>True story: I was going over a GUI design for a client&rsquo;s Mac app in a group chat and I said &ldquo;man, I&rsquo;d love a touch version of this on an iPad.&rdquo; The client said they&rsquo;d love to do it, but could never charge enough on the iPad to cover the development costs.<\/p>\n<p>Think about that for a second. With 100 million iPads sold since 2010, versus a Mac installed base of about 60 million, the iPad market is nearly twice as large, yet cannot justify development or even porting.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Adamson responds to Michael Jurewitz and Lex Friedman: So what&rsquo;s the proper response? Obviously: don&rsquo;t write apps for sale in the App Store anymore. This has already happened. But it hasn&rsquo;t manifested itself as a mass migration off the iOS platform (what, like Android users are any more willing to pay for apps?), but [&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":[91,101,31,30],"class_list":["post-7293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-business","tag-ios","tag-mac"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7293","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=7293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7294,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7293\/revisions\/7294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}