App Pricing, Piracy, And A Calculator

After a bit of a Twitter exchange on the back of some app piracy frustration, I invited James Thomson (best known for his wonderful calculator app, PCalc) to come and chat about all things piracy and app pricing. We take a few tangents down subscription pricing, app store reviews, upgrade paths and some essential discussions about the Mac Studio and M1 Ultra. It was a real pleasure to record with James, especially given some audio challenges we had along the way. A huge shoutout to Squadcast for making the whole process painless, the issues we had didn’t come out on their local recordings and to say it saved the episode would be an understatement. I really hope you enjoy this episode, do you have any thoughts on app pricing, the app store, or even piracy. If so, we’d love to hear from you, so send a note over to [email protected], leave a comment on the post, or start a discussion in Goodpods. If you liked this episode or any of our content, we’d greatly appreciate any little bit of support you can throw our way over at our Ko-Fi page. Episode Links James Thomson (@jamesthomson) on Twitter PCalc Website iMac G4 James’ Tweet About the Pirate Audio Hijack by Rogue Amoeba Apple Announce WWDC 2022 Chapter Times 00:00:04: Introductions 00:02:15: Bundled Apps 00:03:52: Dealings With Pirates 00:09:23: Subscriptions & Upgrade Pricing 00:12:22: Weeding Out Genuine Requests 00:14:27: App Pricing 00:19:40: The Realities Of Support 00:21:26: Processor Transitions & App Store Only 00:31:09: Respect For Paid Software 00:35:29: WWDC & Apple Silicon 00:42:33: Plugs & Outros Credits Intro and outro theme: Ace of Clubs by RoccoW