Angry users
Of course, it looks like I should probably expect a bunch of 1-star reviews saying things like “stoopid you can get this for free! too much money! not worth $10 but maybe I’d pay $3!”
Sigh, I think that’s very true. It’s not just whiny and annoying, but also ignorant. People are essentially saying “I severely underestimate the amount of work it took to make this” or “I understand it took many, many hours to make this but I don’t think you should be compensated.”
People bitch and moan about the cost of lots of things — but it’s infected iPhone Apps especially hard. Setting aside brick-and-mortar stores for now, are the bulk of book reviews on Amazon rants about the pricing? No. Or even within iTunes, are the majority of album reviews something like “9.99 for this new Beck album? Rip off! It’s just some notes played in a certain order! $5 at most!” Crazy talk.
My theory is that the general public feels better paying for either real goods or digital goods that also happen to be sold in a non-digital format (in a box) — but digital-based goods that aren’t on a store shelf anywhere have an uphill battle. This thinking is unfortunate because it will only hold back new media, but there it is.
My last word on this is a modest proposal to Apple: Only let people who have downloaded and installed any given app write a review of it.
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