Marco Arment
Jeff Ruberg
@marcoarment but isn't it more like every user paying $3-5 once vs. 0.1% of users paying $12/year?
Effectively, the price of a $1/month patronage app is actually raised: from $3–5 once to $12/year. That’s progress, I think.
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@jeffinitelyjeff@marcoarment but removing that $3-5 barrier increases the number of people who might eventually pay $12 a year -
@goatenthusiast7
@marcoarment sure, but even increasing user base by 100x ends up with net decrease if only 1/1000 donate -
@jeffinitelyjeff@marcoarment where did 1/1000 come from exactly? -
@goatenthusiast7
@jeffinitelyjeff My patronage rate is already far above that. -
@marcoarment @goatenthusiast7 "already"? don't you expect patronage rate, like App Store purchases, to drop off after the initial launch? -
@jeffinitelyjeff@marcoarment but the key part of patronage is that it is ongoing and doesn’t rely on the launch volume to be sustainable -
@goatenthusiast7
@marcoarment non-auto-renewing subscriptions means that by any realistic projections there will be drop-off - Show more
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@marcoarment They really depends on what percentage of your users decide to pay, though. -
@HarveyNick So has any other monetization method ever tried. - View other replies
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@marcoarment Yes, but it’s pay at the door versus pay on the way out if you want to. Which doesn’t necessarily scale across cultures. -
@HarveyNick Neither does paying for apps up front, or paying to unlock features, or responding to ads. -
@marcoarment Very true. And I really hope this is a lift from the bottom, rather than a search for something below it.
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@marcoarment The question is whether it's it scalable to work for many app devs:https://twitter.com/eli_schiff/status/664851460039925761 … -
@eli_schiff No, the question is whether it’s an overall improvement over the previous method. How well was the status quo working out? -
@marcoarment It's worth trying. I'm mainly curious how long it will be feasible, which depends on how many devs adopt the model.
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@marcoarment Even if people don't renew the patronage it's better for you. Will this keep you adding new features to make it worth renewing? -
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@marcoarment which is great. I wonder if it is scalable though. If every app starts asking for a $1 a month, I’m going to have a problem! -
@BlackPlastic@marcoarment thank you! I can only pay a monthly subscription for so many things at once…
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@marcoarment It also works around the Apple “only free updates” problem. I wish it wasn’t needed, though.
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