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Accidental Tech Podcast

70: The Endgame Is Omnipotence

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2014

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

  • Follow-up on app bundles as upgrade pricing.
  • Whether games are more like apps or movies.
  • Amazon's Fire Phone
  • Amazon and Apple doing what they're respectively, exclusively good at.
    • Continuity and Handoff in Yosemite and iOS 8
    • Only Apple (John Gruber)
  • John's opinion of iMessage.
  • Casey's further adventures developing a small web app in a hostile environment.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Alright, so the showbott is up again so far. We'll see how long that lasts.

0:05.0

You're still centering the titles. Come on, Casey. Come on.

0:08.4

What's wrong with that?

0:09.6

What's wrong with that?

0:10.8

Yeah. Besides that it's like daggers in your eyes. It's impossible to reach.

0:17.6

Besides that.

0:18.8

Oh, other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the flag?

0:21.8

It forms crazy shapes that mean nothing. It turns the entire thing into a giant raw shock test.

0:27.0

Oh, that's a man with a hat looking at me.

0:30.6

Is this person's name actually Jason Discount?

0:33.6

Not only is this person's name Jason Discount, but I knew this person when I was a kid.

0:37.6

So you know this is actually his real name?

0:39.6

Yes, it is his real name. I think he lives in Australia now, but he used to live like, you know, the town over for me.

0:46.6

So his name is Jason Discount and he's emailing us about upgrade pricing discounts.

0:49.6

Yeah, it's finally a legitimate reason for him to have that name.

0:55.6

He's been waiting his whole life for this moment when a podcast had something wrong about Discount pricing.

1:00.6

It's not wrong. It's just that I don't think any of us brought up this specific scenario when complaining about the confusing bundle pricing as a way to do upgrades.

1:08.6

And he gives the example of let's say you have really some application at six dollars and then you work on your second version of the application.

1:15.6

And you want to sell that for six dollars too, but you only want people to be able to upgrade from version one for two dollars.

1:21.6

So his strategy for this is if you reduce the first version to four dollars and make the bundle price with both of them together six dollars.

1:28.6

If someone accidentally buys the old app, it still only costs them a total of six dollars to buy the new app.

1:34.6

And of course anybody who already has the new app can buy the bundle and complete this bundle to get it for two dollars.

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