{"id":7792,"date":"2013-09-06T11:24:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T16:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7792"},"modified":"2013-09-06T11:24:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T16:24:32","slug":"an-upgrade-is-a-new-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/06\/an-upgrade-is-a-new-app\/","title":{"rendered":"An Upgrade Is a New App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My conclusion in <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/05\/the-gatekeeper-and-the-keymaster\/\">In The Gatekeeper and the Keymaster<\/a> was that Apple doesn&rsquo;t plan to offer upgrade pricing in the Mac App Store. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/siegel\/status\/375661086324031490\">Rich Siegel<\/a> says Apple advises making version 2 a separate app. If that&rsquo;s the case, Apple should focus on making that model smoother. Right now, unless you offer free updates forever, you eventually have to remove version 1 from the store and add version 2. The user experience for this is terrible. If the store and the OS understood that this is what was happening, there&rsquo;s so much that it could do to make the process smoother. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/2013\/09\/05\/its-time-for-an-app-store-pricing-revolution\/?hubRefSrc=permalink#lf_comment=98377896\">TUAW commenter chrismcs<\/a> has a great list of some of the issues.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My conclusion in In The Gatekeeper and the Keymaster was that Apple doesn&rsquo;t plan to offer upgrade pricing in the Mac App Store. Rich Siegel says Apple advises making version 2 a separate app. If that&rsquo;s the case, Apple should focus on making that model smoother. Right now, unless you offer free updates forever, you [&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":[91,38,101,31,30,39],"class_list":["post-7792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-apple","tag-business","tag-ios","tag-mac","tag-macappstore"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792","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=7792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}