Michael Tsai on Twitter: "@siegel @stevenf Yep. Or offering the new app as an update, or redirecting links when the old app is removed, etc., etc."

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Steven Frank ‏@stevenf 5 Sep 2013

My guess (only a guess since they won’t tell us): upgrade pricing is deprecated in favor of full price upgrades at a lower full price.
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Lich Bleach-Skull ‏@siegel 5 Sep 2013

@stevenf That is in fact the precise advice: "We expect the price of applications to be low enough that re-buying is a viable option."
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Lich Bleach-Skull ‏@siegel 5 Sep 2013

@stevenf (In fairness, that's a paraphrase of my notes squeezed into 140 characters, but semantically accurate.) /cc @mjtsai
Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai 5 Sep 2013

@siegel @stevenf Makes sense. But if having you make a separate app is the plan, there’s so much the store could do to make that smoother.
Lich Bleach-Skull ‏@siegel 5 Sep 2013

@mjtsai @stevenf Agreed — changing bundle IDs for upgrades is unsustainable, for example.

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@siegel @stevenf Yep. Or offering the new app as an update, or redirecting links when the old app is removed, etc., etc.

12:09 PM - 5 Sep 2013

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