The iPhone App Store just turnedone , and developer are getting the knack of the gadget . Game companies likeEAand Namco are start out specialized divisions just to target the iPhone . Apps are about to get good , correct ? Not exactly .
https://gizmodo.com/happy-birthday-app-store-revolutionizing-mobile-compu-5312495
Here ’s the major grounds : the price of apps . AppCubbymaker of apps likeGasCubby , just put up ananalysisof the app store that says the newfangled price ceiling is $ 5 . It used to be $ 10 . But according to him and other developer , the $ 10 price point is no longer sustainable , seeing as many previously $ 10 - price apps are now $ 3-$5 .
https://gizmodo.com/iphones-gas-cubby-car-care-tracker-is-anal-so-you-dont-5091173/
There belike are two major co - existing reasons for the drop . One , honest-to-goodness apps get price drops to tempt in cheapskate . mass who wanted them already buy them , and people who are holdouts will only jump on when the price is bring down . Two , previous apps just get dropped because older titles ( see Best Buy ) get price cliff .
But back to the main percentage point . If $ 5 is the young received cost ceiling , developers are n’t survive to be willing to consecrate time to their project . It ’s asCraig Hockenberryof Twitterific argued : bigger projects need a bountiful issue , but if those developers price their apps too high , there wo n’t be enough income to make those labor worthwhile .
There ’s no easy result to this , which means that iPhone users should n’t expect much more complicated games than what ’s already on there now . All the talk of the town of the iPhone competing with the DS or the PSP in terms of quality may be disputable if there ’s nobody there to spend the effort break that level of game . [ AppCubby ]
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