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20090309 Monday March 09, 2009

No such thing as a 99 cent value meal at BlackBerry AppWorld

RIM will try to avoid the mistakes of Apple's iPhone AppStore by providing a minimum price ($2.99) that developers can charge for paid apps. They hope to discourage the 99 cent cheapo apps that have plagued the iPhone AppStore.

See:

Discouraging the 99 cent app

Here's a quote: 

 RIM will accept any applications 
 that can be packaged as a cod 
 file using the BlackBerry Java 
 Development Environment, 
 BlackBerry JDE Plug-in for 
 Eclipse and BlackBerry JDE 
 component pack--developers may 
 also promote and distribute web-
 based content services provided 
 they offer a web icon 
 application to be distributed 
 through the store
I kinda like 99 cent value pricing. There is a recession going on. Well at least they're not prohibiting free apps. Free apps are great. As they say, whatever you lose in profits with free apps, you can always make it up in volume. ;-)

[Java ME and J2ME] ( March 09, 2009 06:25 PM ) Permalink Comments [1]

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Those idiots. Yahoo used to set minimum bid prices at 10c, vs. Google's 1c. Geez, I wonder who got the long tail.

Posted by Bob Pareelli on March 09, 2009 at 07:20 PM PDT #

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