Tag Archives: itunes

Who’s Really Winning in the App Store?

May 22, 2009 – 9:46 am

I’ve been fascinated by the developers of apps in the iTunes app store. Pricing seems to be a big issue with developers. I often wonder who’s right.
A recent post at FingerGaming names the top paid games and points out that major franchise titles are having trouble competing with cheap no-name games.
The thing to consider when [...]

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Are iTunes App Store Prices Too Low?

December 14, 2008 – 8:21 pm

If you sell something for $100 people will say it should be $90 you can sell the same thing for $90 and people will say it should be $70. Produce apps that are worth more than $0.99 and people will buy them.

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Lonely Planet Getting it All Wrong

October 27, 2008 – 8:52 am

Today I decided I’d like to buy a Lonely Planet travel guide. I have an iPod Touch now so I though, maybe since they have all those snazy phrase books as apps for the iPhone / Touch they have PDF’s of their books.

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Remove the Arrows in iTunes

October 4, 2008 – 9:26 pm

Open the Terminal application (look in the applications folder, then the system utilities folder). Then just paste this line into the terminal and hit return: defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-store-arrow-links -bool FALSE Want those goofy annoying arrows back?

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