As someone who is in the process of launching 100 sites in one year, I understand the need to turn a profit. But this is crazy. You know that little + symbol that you see when surfing the iTunes app store? It means the application is good for both the iPhone platform and the ipad platform. But I am finding applications that have that symbol, and the iPhone/iPod touch version still in existence as a separate purchase. Then to punch you a little harder, the iPad version is twice as much as the iPhone version. So you have to purchase the new version, but you can use it on your iPad and iPhone…. But they didn’t just upgrade the old version to work on both. No. They say they optimized the code for the iPad and it just happens to work with the iPhone. Then there are other applications that just added larger graphics and relaunched the application at an additional price. Leaving the other application to languish. It is pretty off-putting. Why would I want to purchase from these people? The obviously think little of their customers. Sort of like announcing your app is advertisement free and then at a later date, “updating” the app so it has advertisements. Just not as sneaky, but still a land grab.
What do you think? If you stumble upon my blogs and projects, make a comment and tell a friend. I don’t advertise so I don’t have much traffic. I suppose I could Twitter everything I type and some would see it in the stream. Thanks for stopping by.
Edit: Engadget is talking about it too.
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