Many developers of apps that are made for Apple iOS are shooting themselves in the foot with their relatively recent change to weekly/monthly subscriptions instead of the former reasonable one time charge. They answer the millions of one star (worst) reviews with lame excuses like “our developers spent many hours on this unique app”, etc. If they are trying to offset the 30% that Apple is charging them for listing their app, then why not simply increase the one time charge by a similar amount? The answer is simply greed.
I opened the iOS App Store this evening, looking for an app that will allow me to put a simple photo collage together. This type of app - dozens of them - has been in the App Store for years, many of them free (limited and with ads) or a one time fee of $2.99-$5.99 for the premium version and no ads. ALL of the collage apps I saw were either “free” (basically unusable) or had an auto-renewing monthly subscription of up to $5.99. And, according to many reviews, the subscriptions were purposely hard to cancel. $72/year for a stupid app just to group photos together?
They get what they deserve. And, as if this bullshit isn’t bad enough, thousands (or more) of the shittiest apps are from Chinese developers. MOST of those apps barely launch, and I’d bet many of them are there only to place malware/spyware on unsuspecting Apple users’ devices. Given Apple’s propensity to kiss Chinese ass, these crap apps likely sail through the approval process. /rant off 😄
Many developers of apps that are made for Apple iOS are shooting themselves in the foot with their relatively recent change to weekly/monthly subscriptions instead of the former reasonable one time charge. They answer the millions of one star (worst) reviews with lame excuses like “our developers spent many hours on this unique app”, etc. If they are trying to offset the 30% that Apple is charging them for listing their app, then why not simply increase the one time charge by a similar amount? The answer is simply greed.
I opened the iOS App Store this evening, looking for an app that will allow me to put a simple photo collage together. This type of app - dozens of them - has been in the App Store for years, many of them free (limited and with ads) or a one time fee of $2.99-$5.99 for the premium version and no ads. ALL of the collage apps I saw were either “free” (basically unusable) or had an auto-renewing monthly subscription of up to $5.99. And, according to many reviews, the subscriptions were purposely hard to cancel. $72/year for a stupid app just to group photos together?
They get what they deserve. And, as if this bullshit isn’t bad enough, thousands (or more) of the shittiest apps are from Chinese developers. MOST of those apps barely launch, and I’d bet many of them are there only to place malware/spyware on unsuspecting Apple users’ devices. Given Apple’s propensity to kiss Chinese ass, these crap apps likely sail through the approval process. /rant off 😄