As iPhone App Store Matures So Do Some “Unlimited” Apps. Don’t Like It? Don’t Upgrade.
This morning I awoke to an update of a new sort. An application called Notifications that I’ve used to send push notifications for RSS feeds had this interesting (if not very diplomatic) wording about their latest update:
“Pricing changed, don’t update if you don’t agree with it. The bottom line is I’ve tried to make it fair for you and for us. You will now have the application for free (might take a few hours for the change to apply on iTunes) and will unlock it within the app for the same price as before: $2.39. If you had paid for the previous version already, your account should be unlocked, else contact us. For this price you will get 20,000 notifications. 20,000 notifications means more than 50 notifications a day for a full year, our average user should go for at least 6 months. When you run out of notifications, you can buy 10,000 notifications more for $0.99. Oh, and if you bought the application, you start with a fresh 20,000 notifications even you received a million the last month, to thank you for being early adopter.”
Apparently what’s happened in this $2.99 application which promised free unlimited notifications when I purchased it back in September changed the terms and has gone limited – and if you don’t like it don’t upgrade (in other words kiss the use of your iPhones “upgrade all” button goodbye).
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