pippin wrote: > Free versions are a difficult animal. As are refundable Apps. > > Android had this "extended trial" model in the beginning (you could > return the App within 24h) and they had huge problems with people just > downloading the Apps, copying them, getting a refund and then still > using them. It was obviously pretty easy to break the copy protection > (if there even is any, don't know). They then changed this to a 5min > interval. While I don't know why this should help it looks like it did. > > And having a "reduced functionality" version is hard. You need to have > something that is useful in itself (or you get bad reviews if you even > make it to the App Store) but especially in a small market like "Apps > for the Squeezebox" you still need to make sure it's not so useful that > people just stick to the free version. > It's a catch-22: you want it to be good and to suck at the same time, > which can't really work. > > I tried to get around that a bit with iPeng Party. It's free and it has > it's own, dedicated use case for which it is fully functional in itself. > I even sometimes use it on the iPad as an iPeng replacement when I'm > building playlists because I like its look a bit better than the > "normal" iPeng for iPad look and it's just so simple for just queuing up > songs. > > But at the same time you can have a look at it to see how iPeng would > perform and what you would get in iPeng, at least WRT browsing the > library: the menus look similar and perform similar to the "full" iPeng > (iPeng is a little bit ahead in the meantime in terms of scrolling > performance and artwork rendering but iPeng Party is still close enough > to give an idea). > > So if you are interested in what you get, especially performance wise > and compared to the other Apps around, that's what you can use for free.
Thanks for sharing the view from a developer's side. I can certainly appreciate your position. Btw, I'm very happy with my iPeng purchase. ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturn94's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56831 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97366 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
