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Posted on All About Windows Phone: With the announcement of iOS 7 for developers at Apple’s WWDC, one of the rival mobile operating systems to Windows Phone steps forward with new ideas and presentations. But if you take a closer look at iOS, is there anything that stands out as a lesson that Windows Phone needs to learn? Here are six… Thoughts welcome!
Lex Friedman: It’s no shocker that free apps are vastly more popular than paid apps; everyone likes getting something for nothing. But it is surprising that folks consider a $3 app expensive, and a $10 app downright exorbitant. I know people who play the same iOS game every single day, but choose to stick with the free version—despite its constant, intrusive ads—rather than pony up $5 just once to go ad-free forever… I’m neither an economist nor a psychologist, but it strikes me that too many iOS device owners fail to act in their own best interests—both in the immediate
Craig Kannalley goes into exquisite, SEO-friendly hints for Betaworks addicitive iOS timed puzzle game, Dots.
Let me get this right. Plants vs Zombies, total cost of ownership… 69p. The upcoming Plants vs Zombies 2, initial cost of ownership, free… but with various in-app purchases, power-ups, boosts, and credits, I suspect the final cost will be much higher. Well played, EA, let’s hope nobody notices…
The internal inquiry say everything okay, and blames it all on Android fragmentation. While the BBC must do all that is reasonably practicable to ensure that viewers can access its on-demand content in a range of convenient and cost-effective ways, this did not necessarily mean that it would always be expected to launch new features on different platforms simultaneously. Nothing to see here, carry on, please stop pestering our mobile developers who can’t handle the multiple variants issue. At least the BBC Trust promise to watch the mobile app during 2013… Which is nice of them.
I know that Apple want to maximise revenue and present the user with options to do so, but the ‘always there’ presence of the Newsstand icon has always irked me a bit, but only now was it enough to go and Google an answer. Which is this. Download StifleStand. Connect iOS device. Press the button marked ‘Hide Newsstand.’ Now why couldn’t Apple do that?
