Hi All Phone is going to be in sales soon, app store is going to accompany it. What would you as app developer appreciate in the app phone?
Is there anything on top of "just buy an app" or "just buy this game upgrade in-app" what could be an important feature for you? Any disruptive ideas? As for me, I'd appreciate a couple of options: 1. Built-in try-before-you-buy. To get rid of free/paid app pairs you see in the other app platforms. If developer doesn't mind, user should just be able to use app for free for some 7 or 30 days. After that - only after payment or with some features downgraded. 2. Built-in subscriptions, especially for micro-sums Subscription-based schemes motivate developers to improve apps all the time while worrying less about hit-or-miss situation, so it would be cool if app store supported it. I seriously would think even of small prices as just $0.95 a year, but it has to be charged on a monthly basis yet nobody is going to bug users with 10 cents monthly paid upgrade. It would be great if app store supported such subscription methods natively. And certainly it could be seamlessly combined with try-before-you-buy so that first month is completely free. What do you think? Cheers, Artem. P.S. I am not working for Jolla, just a random developer interested in the topic. -- Artem Marchenko http://agilesoftwaredevelopment.com http://twitter.com/AgileArtem
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