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Old 14-07-2011, 17:44
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Go and look at the Top Grossing list on the app store. The GPS apps are above £10 each and yet they're still selling in high enough quantities to be top of the charts. Quite a few of the EA brand titles go above the £5 mark too.
I just looked on Top Grossing, and there's an app in the top 10 for £599.99
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Old 14-07-2011, 17:45
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Go and look at the Top Grossing list on the app store. The GPS apps are above £10 each and yet they're still selling in high enough quantities to be top of the charts. Quite a few of the EA brand titles go above the £5 mark too.
Of course they will be at the top of the "Top Grossing" charts, they cost more! For every £25 app sold you'd have to sell 42 59p apps to keep up.

I still think you're misunderstanding my point, but I don't know how to explain it properly so I'll just leave it.
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Old 14-07-2011, 18:07
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You also have to remember that UK prices have VAT included so $0.99 should cost £0.74 when in fact Apple are only charging £0.69 so we still get a better deal.
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Old 14-07-2011, 18:33
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You also have to remember that UK prices have VAT included so $0.99 should cost £0.74 when in fact Apple are only charging £0.69 so we still get a better deal.
If that's so, then when you look at the £2.99 price that hasn't changed, that's actually now 24% less than the exchange rate says it should be.

But on the other hand, at £1.49, that's 0.6% more than the exchange rate.

So, not a uniform % increase. Just a realignment into new price matrices. And not unreasonably so it would appear.

But Apple are still evil though... right?
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Old 14-07-2011, 19:48
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They'll be drowning kittens next
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