Ondrej Holzman The Mac App Store will launched in just a few hours and all customers expect what pricing policy the developers will choose. Early estimates and developer statements suggest that the prices of Mac software should not be that different from apps in the iOS App Store. Of course, there are also much more expensive titles here, but that's understandable.
We can expect similar prices for those applications that already appear in the iOS App Store and are more or less ported to the Mac App Store. This is referred to by developer Markus Nigrin, who published the results of interviews with several other industry colleagues on his blog. He asked those who already have their iPhone or iPad apps. It looks like the Mac price shouldn't be too different here. Most such apps cost between one and five dollars in the iOS App Store.
And the reason for such a decision? Apple provided a fairly simple way to transfer apps from iOS to the Mac, so most of the developers Nigrin spoke with took less than four weeks to develop. Most of the time was invested in optimizing controls or HD graphics. So if you already had your app built, the cost of building a Mac version wasn't too high. Therefore, prices should be set similarly, which could also guarantee successful sales to developers.
The question is how other applications will be priced - the completely new ones or the more complex ones, which should understandably be more expensive. For example, we can mention the iLife and iWork packages from the Apple workshop. Individual programs from iLife (iMovie, iPhoto, GarageBand) should cost $15, she indicated keynote, on which the Mac App Store was introduced. The prices of individual applications from the iWork office suite (Pages, Keynote, Numbers) should be five dollars higher. For comparison, iMovie on the iPhone now sells for $5, and the iWork app for the iPad sells for $10. So the difference is not that fundamental. If other developers set similar prices, we probably wouldn't be too upset. Although Nigrin admitted that some larger companies are thinking about a much more expensive pricing policy to get back the 30% that Apple takes from the profits, many of them are still hesitant.
Sources: macrumors.com a appleinsider.com
I think it will come back to them in other ways. Easily purchased and centrally downloadable and updated software gives fewer reasons to illegally download it.
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I think it will be something like on the App Store, where when I re-downloaded the same application that I have already bought, it just told me that I had already paid for it and I could easily download it again :) …. let it be tomorrow
I'm already looking forward to shopping from one place, as I've been doing for 3 years for the iPhone and half a year for the iPad.
For iWeb themes, for FCP filters, for Aperture PlugIns, for DVD Studio Pro themes etc. Now I bought it wherever I could, different distribution methods, loss of installation numbers, different payment methods, etc. The AppStore is simply a win and an escape from the competition.
Of course, they will get the 30% back... Now I was looking at my account and for the last month I spent a little over two thousand again... on apps for a few EUR each, which I don't really need or end up using... :-) I'm still playing all the time free Solitaire and that's about all :-) If it's like this every month, then my phone will become quite expensive in the less than two years I've been using the iPhone... :-)))