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Forget 99 cent smartphone apps, let's be fair to developers too

Price floors don't help anyoneFirst, setting a minimum price is a price floor. Basic microeconomics teaches that this lowers demand and raises supply, generating an inefficient surplus. I don't see how that's good.Second, you seem to imply in this article that $0.99 apps are Apple's fault. They...

Tags: Action Games, developer, cent smartphone app

Discussion threads 2009-08-20

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Forget 99 cent smartphone apps, let's be fair to developers too

I wrote about the BlackBerry App World minimum pricing plan back in March as RIM stated the minimum cost for a priced, not free, application would be $2.99. As I said then and still say today, 99 cent apps don't give most developers what they deserve for creating the application...

Tags: Developer, Smart Phone, Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-08-20

Windows Mobile does better than iPhone in 4th quarter 2008

Windows Mobile does better than iPhone in 4th quarter 2008Let's face it, NZ---An awful lot of "the faithful" weren't "the faithful" until AFTER they bought the iPhone!Other important data pointsMy data comes directly from Gartner's release:http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=910112[i]In the fourth quarter of 2008, Microsoft's share of the global smartphone market improved sequentially,...

Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Operating systems, Handhelds, mobile, Microsoft Windows, Apple iPhone, sales, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows Mobile

Discussion threads 2009-03-11

RIM carves out its own App World: Will it work?

Research in Motion launched its BlackBerry application store---dubbed App World---and the pricing model will immediately draw comparison's to Apple's App Store set-up. That comparison, however, only goes so far.  For starters, RIM's App World pricing model has raised a bit of a ruckus since it veers a...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Smart Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-05

Ballmer calls Google's Android 'way behind'

Ballmer calls Google's Android 'way behind'From what I understand Balmer was at first notimpressed with the iPhone and look at how good its doing:PPagan jimItanalyst2 Calls Ballmer's Fitness Level "Way Behind"Get on a treadmill you hog.RE: Ballmer calls Google's Android 'way behind'Christine Keeler - the prostitute at the heart of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating systems, Well Ballmer, Google Inc., Steve Ballmer, Google Android, mobile, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-06