Android @lemdro.id baatliwala @lemmy.world 1 mo. ago

Google has more than doubled Play Store's app price limit to $1,000

www.androidauthority.com Watch your wallets! Google has more than doubled Play Store's app price limit to $1,000

Developers can now price their products on Google Play as high as $999.99. The previous app price limit was $400, set back in late 2015.

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So now we can have an Android port of the "I am rich" app.
- BRB, need to code an app.
So the same + inflation?
Hate this:

https://www.sombrainc.com/blog/most-expensive-apps#:~:text=CyberTuner%2C a professional piano tuning,most expensive App Store app.

Actually there's a lot of piano tuning apps, and maybe that's not a bad thing?

Does anyone know if those prices are fair or total b******* for a piano tuning app?
- I mean a pianotuneR (as in a guy that tunes your piano) is pretty expensive.
  
  These apps seem to be marketed as tools for professional piano tuners. And looking just at the screenshots it looks like it has a lot of tools and features outside of just showing the correct pitch.
  
  If tuning pianos is your profession, paying 999$ once and writing it off as a business expense isn't that far fetched.
  
  (Better be a bloody useful tool though ;) )
  
  I'm 99% sure that a professional piano tuner would be better served with a dedicated tuning device than a $999 Android tuning app.
  
  We need a Foss alternative
  
  That's what I'm curious about, I guess we need to find someone who uses these apps or is a piano tuner that could weigh in.
- Well, you can't just use any tuner app for tuning a piano, basically because intervals (multiple simultaneous notes) on pianos are always slightly out of tune and we just try to approximate them as well as possible (via a tuning system called "12-tone equal temperament").
  If you'd tune each individual note to be perfectly in tune according to a normal tuner, then intervals would sound horrible (unless you'd only ever play in C Major, I believe).
  
  But yeah, it's definitely still a matter of the user base being niche and the users making money when using your app.
  
  this man tunes
  
  Have you had the chance to try out any of these piano tuning apps? Would any of them be useful? Piano tuners?
- So, the most expensive iOS apps are complicated applications aimed at professionals, while the most expensive Android apps are all junk apps aimed at rich people.
  
  Why does your comment smell like a superiority complex?
  
  Doesn't look like it, but I appreciate the swing
  
  Feels less like rich people and more like money laundering.
  
  The most expensive iOS apps are from Apple
What would an app need to do for you to consider spending $1k on it?
- A complete small business software suite.
  
  Or
  
  The Dick Sucker 9000 upgrade app for an actual AI powered sexbot.
  
  But then you have to buy the hardware attachment separately. That's where they get ya.
- Maybe your cars extended warranty
Anyone else triggered by the lack of bezels in that picture?
- Like how the google play logo literally touches the edge if the screen?
Well, if you want to play that Ball Drop game, here's a free alternative: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.pipoypipagames.towerjumper/

Edit: I had a brainfart while posting this. It was in reference to this article, which someone else had mentioned: https://www.sombrainc.com/blog/most-expensive-apps
- Not been updated in 5 years and incompatible with 64 bit phones :/
  
  Works fine for me ¯\(ツ)/¯
  
  Sorry, out of the loop.
  
  Did this app cost alot of money or something?

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