Tuesday, May 24, 2011

App Store

I love the app store, or rather I love the reviews in the app store. For example, I just read a review of a FREE app and the review gave it 1 star. Why? Becasue the app writer had the audacity to want to charge $10 to unlock the functionality that would allow the user to export his data to an email. Consider that for a second- you have a program that is supposed to do one thing (in this case, read bar codes and help track inventory) and you have access to all of that information for free. The developer knows that the useful part of the application is being able to share that info, and that's what they charge you for. You know the program works and does what you need it to in terms of its overall function. Why get mad when the dev is trying to (gasp!) make money from software he developed? Do you hate 'Merica? Are you one-a them communists? No? Then pay for the functionality in your goddamned app!

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