Probably many of our most attentive readers to App Store news have realized that these days there were more applications of maximum price than usual. What's more, selling apps at € 899,99 or $ 999,99, depending on the currency and country in which the developer distributed it, seemed to indicate that users were willing to spend those fortunes on them. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Today we know what all this new fashion is due to that few could afford, at least accustomed as we are to spending a few cents on the apps that we like the most. And today we reveal to you the secret of why many apps on the App Store They were selling this week for €899,99. This is a strategy to achieve low-cost advertising.
The strategy used by the developers is quite simple. Although in reality, the one who has devised it has its merit, since you had to give it a couple of turns and know in depth how the Apple App Store.
Some kind of hoax to the App Store
The developer placed the application with which he wanted to search for low-cost advertising at the maximum price. I mean, € 899,99 or $ 999,99. He bought the application that he himself had created from 10 different accounts. That meant an investment of less than € 3000, since part of that money would return to his hands and he would only have to pay the 30% commission that Apple takes in its App Store.
The goal was that Apple highlight the appAs there are hardly any published apps at the maximum cost in the store, and it is quite easy to achieve this. Many were those who signed up to the trick and deceived Apple, to then lower the price of the program again and stay in the rankings with a recommendation that would otherwise cost them many thousands of euros more.
Curious way to use the App Store for their own benefit, don't you think?
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Please help I accidentally gave the purchase to see if the news was true and as I had the password for other previous Apple purchases I downloaded it as I do to claim a refund to Apple what unfortunate when I realized that it costs 900 he gave me something What time is there to claim before they bill?
Call Apple 900150503, that they provide you with the Apple Store phone, which is another and comment on the case, they do not usually cause problems
I went to click the button to see the application, and I was scared by Lucia's comment. I suppose it is impossible to buy from a button integrated in a website other than applestore, but if this is the case, give yourself life to eliminate it.
Go birds these of the application. It does not seem bad to me, on a smaller scale, there are also those who put the application at 10 euros, and then lower it as an offer to leave it at that price forever.