Links for 2011-04-28:
- Angry Birds | MetaFilter –
- inessential.com: Design + code –
- Some holoalphabetisms – in Japanese –
- Early portable (?) synthesis: the Hammond Solovox | MetaFilter –
- don’t talk yourself out of marketing [Aaron Griffith, [a Weblog by Aaron Griffith]] –
- ShareKit : Drop-in Share Features for all iOS Apps –
- Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies –
- Why Instapaper Free is taking an extended vacation – Marco.org – Marco gives some very good reasons for NOT having a free version of your app:
Only people who buy the paid app — and therefore have no problem paying $5 for an app — can post reviews for it. That filters out a lot of the sorts of customers who will leave unreasonable, incomprehensible, or inflammatory reviews. (It also filters out many people likely to need a lot of support.)
I don’t need every customer. I’m primarily in the business of selling a product for money. How much effort do I really want to devote to satisfying people who are unable or extremely unlikely to pay for anything?
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