After years of operating under these conditions, consumers today perceive software to be worth effectively nothing. According to an anonymous developer, "if you're trying to sell to the mass market for more than $2.99, you might as well charge $1M."
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This is where fremium apps come into play. Some consumers are willing to spend astronomical prices if you give them a little cookie for it.42w
As a developer who knows the influence reviews and ratings have on app sales, Rate-us nags are intrusive, distort results and leave me no option but to underrate even apps I love.
Maybe one nag per quarter, but multiple times in a 20 minute use session? You're wasting people's time and impede enjoyment of your product by your user base. (Speaking in general, not to any individual or company!)42w
Wow that's a bunch of unhappy applets...! Never had these types of issues with play. Doesn't surprise me to say the least. Apple's track record with vendors other than themselves had always been 0. Well goes to show you that they enjoy the +450% markup on hardware more than software titles.42w
stop texting me bitch ass hole42w
Someone asked why developers develop for ios first. IMO, the reason is discover ability. App store is pretty great at featuring new and worthy apps. Every Thursday when the AppStore and PlayStore's homepage catalog changes, I always ALWAYS find one or two interesting app on AppStore while PlayStore shows me same old worthless apps. I haven't discovered a single new and interesting app in PlayStore that way in two years. 42w
Classic supply and demand. Local music bands complain about the same thing. There's 100 bands competing for 10 spots. Lowest common denominator wins. There are 100's of thousands of developers (using the term loosely) most of them putting out shit but free shit. The only thing to even slow it up would be to charge 5k plus per year to publish to the play store..42w