Nick Lockwood
It seems to me with iTunes & App Store, Apple created an incredible opportunity for content creators to be paid fairly, only to squander it.
iTunes raised the price of MP3s from free (pirate) to 99c, likewise the App Store created a way to fairly monetise free Flash games.
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But fast forward a few years, and through apathy (or worse) consumers have come to expect apps and music to be free, while Apple profits.
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@nicklockwood I don’t blame consumers, rather VC backed predatory business models, and small developers who don’t charge sustainable prices. -
@vopt I wasn't blaming consumers either. I think Apple has been complicit in spreading the idea the software should be given away for free. -
@nicklockwood Agreed. Clearly Apple wants software to be free. Makes me pessimistic for the long term fallout.
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@nicklockwood@dwlz Apple also established 99¢ as a fair price for a piece of software, where before it had been 10-50x that much. - View other replies
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@nicklockwood@dwlz which is sad. The only saving grace is the size of the market.
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