Editorial: iPad app prices are out of control and will kill us all
An opinion. But a valid one.
Apple trained us well with the iPhone. All those $0.99 apps, $1.99 apps, and the occasional $4.99 or app, padded by plentiful free apps, and we laid down / rolled over every time the App Store whistled. Sure, we admit it, after a few months of conditioning we even spent $9.99 on a couple apps, but boy did we do our homework on those ones! They had to be the best, they had to either be the “greatest game ever,” or a vital piece of productivity software we could never live without. But something, somewhere broke within and we were left powerless as the iPad at last made its way out of the box and popped open the App Store for the first time. These pricey apps (the average seems to be double the iPhone price) are dangerously expensive, and we’d like everybody involved to think twice before beating our wallet into submission with these $9.99 and $14.99 “snacks.” Follow with us after the break as we break this down, won’t you?
