15. The App Pricing Roller Coaster
The average price of an iPhone/iPad app at the time of this writing is $2.26, a drop from $3.13 a year ago. The average price of a game app is $1.04, a drop from $1.30 a year ago. The question that many developers often have after they’ve posted their apps to the App Store is when should they adjust their pricing? What if the pricing adjustment has no impact on sales? Then what?
As we have said in other chapters, your pricing should depend on what type of app you are selling. Even if you are selling a game app, you need to price it more or less in line with the prices for other games in that particular category. Figure 15.1 shows the range of game prices for May 2011 as reported by Distimo for iPad apps. The ...
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