{"id":8013,"date":"2013-10-15T15:59:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T20:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8013"},"modified":"2013-10-16T07:48:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T12:48:25","slug":"upgrade-pricing-via-multiple-apps-url-schemes-and-i-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/15\/upgrade-pricing-via-multiple-apps-url-schemes-and-i-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade Pricing via Multiple Apps, URL Schemes, and I-AP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macdrifter.com\/2013\/10\/an-interesting-ios-app-store-upgrade-example.html\">Gabe Weatherhead&rsquo;s site<\/a>, Michael Burford of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.headlightinc.com\">Headlight Software<\/a> explains how they implemented upgrade pricing for <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/app\/ftp-on-go-pro-upgrade-for\">FTP On The Go<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macdrifter.com\/2013\/10\/an-interesting-ios-app-store-upgrade-example.html\"><p>Apps can say they handle a &ldquo;URL Scheme&rdquo; so instead of http:\/\/ opening the web browser, fb:\/\/ will open the facebook app. Other apps can check if a particular scheme is supported. Our ftp apps just have their own scheme that can be checked.<\/p>\n<p>Depending which if any the earlier FTP apps it finds, it shows the different in-app purchases as you saw :) As far as we know, we&rsquo;re the first to do anything like this to offer discounted upgrades to previous owners.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The upgrade app itself is free but not fully functional. Then they offer an In-App Purchase to activate all the features, and the price for the I-AP varies depending on whether you have the previous version installed. There are currently five different versions of the app in the store.<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macdrifter.com\/2013\/10\/an-interesting-ios-app-store-upgrade-example.html\"><p>We were as explicit about what we&rsquo;re doing in the &ldquo;Reviewer Notes&rdquo; to Apple as we could be, even asking for a delayed higher level review. Even before activating, it can do quite a bit, many browsing and viewing tasks. If all you need is to view a file on an FTP server, you can do that in the free app.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&rsquo;s a clever solution for sure, but Apple is crazy if they think this sort of model is more customer friendly than supporting proper upgrades.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Gabe Weatherhead&rsquo;s site, Michael Burford of Headlight Software explains how they implemented upgrade pricing for FTP On The Go: Apps can say they handle a &ldquo;URL Scheme&rdquo; so instead of http:\/\/ opening the web browser, fb:\/\/ will open the facebook app. Other apps can check if a particular scheme is supported. Our ftp apps [&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":[91,101,636,522,31,26],"class_list":["post-8013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-business","tag-ftp-on-the-go","tag-inapppurchase","tag-ios","tag-iosapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8013","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=8013"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8021,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8013\/revisions\/8021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}