Just a note on the pricing changes thing. As a user, if I see an excessive number of price changes or clear price manipulation in AppShopper (which gives you a history of the pricing changes of any app) I mark the app as suspect in my head and typically move on.
I would prefer a dev be confident in the value and price of their app than to constantly be changing it. In my personal experience, most devs that are constantly meddling with the price have an app that's barely worth 99c on their hands.
The other thing it possibly indicates is that they change the price frequently to show up in apps like AppShopper as having a reduced price, which I find to be shady practice as well typically only done by mediocre devs.
It's just one of those respectability things, like reasonable in-app purchases. I won't use or respect your app if you don't respect me as a user, and charging $12 for an app one day, 99c the next and $5 the day after that isn't respecting me.
Obviously this is all my own personal opinion and experience, but I don't think I'm the only one out there who feels this way.
Ugh. This seems a perfect example of why selling to a market composed of people you'd find on HN isn't worth it. No offense, I'd probably use AppShopper too and feel similarly, but let's face it, the vast, vast majority of iOS buyers aren't going to scrutinize the price history of your app before purchasing. Why are we programmers the whiniest group of users out there when it comes to buying something that costs less than a cup of coffee, and probably literally is worth less of our time than what it took to look it up in AppShopper?
I would prefer a dev be confident in the value and price of their app than to constantly be changing it. In my personal experience, most devs that are constantly meddling with the price have an app that's barely worth 99c on their hands.
The other thing it possibly indicates is that they change the price frequently to show up in apps like AppShopper as having a reduced price, which I find to be shady practice as well typically only done by mediocre devs.
It's just one of those respectability things, like reasonable in-app purchases. I won't use or respect your app if you don't respect me as a user, and charging $12 for an app one day, 99c the next and $5 the day after that isn't respecting me.
Obviously this is all my own personal opinion and experience, but I don't think I'm the only one out there who feels this way.