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Originally Posted by TunaNugget
There are lots of different types of businesses, and there's no one business model that works for all of them.
The great majority of the apps in the store now, not just the crappy ones, are hovering between 99 cents and 1.99. That's in line with the small, cheap toys hanging on an end-cap in the checkout lane in a department store.
The people who make those toys have a workable business model. Their mission is to provide their customers with an item, bought on sight and on impulse, that will make their kid happy for a few minutes. They do not try to establish a brand (though they'll often pay to borrow one from an entertainment company). They do not try to make a product that will last forever. They don't publish press releases, buy advertising, or try to get Consumer Reports to review their 99-cent toy.
Occasionally, out of the blue, one of these toys will become wildly popular for a short while, but there doesn't seem to be a way to predict it, or make it happen. The business plans of the small, cheap, toy companies don't depend on it.
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Yes, but for them nothing will change if the updates don't show up right?
Their model will not crumble and their existance on the appstore will not alter anything for anyone else - so instead of updating they will create new v. 1 apps... But they don't represent the majority of the apps that are constantly updating right?
I fail to see your point here, sorry... Or perhaps I missread your post?
I do believe though that releasing v. 1 iterations of 1 app (without really changing anything) will not work in the long run...
And as soon as you need to change stuff - things will slow down...
I do not think that everyone will be able to maintain the speed in pushing out updates if they are forced to make completely new versions of their apps - some might, but overall... I don't think so...
And the thing that will happen, I think, is that once you flood the store with apps that do the same thing, customers will get bored and look for something else (just look at the fart-apps or the sound-grenade-apps) and then you still end up with having to create a new concept.
