Simply Lists Mentioned on “Just Another iPhone Blog”
I was super excited to see that Just Another iPhone Blog gave my application Simply Lists a positive mention yesterday. Really happy to see that they liked it.
I have also reduced the price of Simply Lists to $0.99. This was a hard move for me to make. I really do not like the trend for all apps to be One Dollar. I believe the time and energy spent to develop these applications is worth more, and the trend to lower prices will result in many developers leaving the iPhone or worse producing trivial software that lacks functionality. Only time will tell whether the changes Apple will surely be making to the app store will improve the current pricing situation.
I saw a comment on FriendFeed recently where Robert Scoble mentioned that he refused to pay more than $5 for an app. Why $5? What makes applications for the iPhone worth less than desktop software. Is the price of the application somehow tied to the size of the screen of the device you are running the software on? Don’t get me wrong I think Scoble is entitled to set any price limit he wants on his personal purchases on the app store. I just wonder why there seems to be a perception that the work someone does for the iPhone is worth less than the same application on the desktop. Seems like a strange difference.
