are you willing to pay for native apps ?
asked 2019-12-19 07:28:59 +0200
Dear all,
i would like to rise one topic again:
everybody is complaining about too few native apps, but i fear nobody is willed to pay for the same or better only few are. there are like 38 000 users here. if 10 000 were active user and everybody would spend 20 bucks a year, we do talk about 200 000 Euros. Share accrossed the 40 most active devs would be like 500 Euros a year each. That would rise the motivation to maintain and develop new stuff.
here are two threads on potential candidates:
https://together.jolla.com/question/200148/native-apps-i-love/
https://together.jolla.com/question/142604/what-app-would-you-pay-10euro-for/
just to share my experience: i have 2 selfwritten apps and i am maintaining one. to build my first app took me at least 40hrs, to maintain it over the year another 40-50 hrs. only the refactoring of the backend of my second app plus testcases took me 10 days every night, so again like 20-30 hrs. for the second app i have receied 3 feature request and i was offered one coffee. in fact i did never received anything :)
again, it is not about me, it is about worth of software. a cleaning lady costs 12 euro's (black money) per hour in my country, minimum. so are you willed to pay for something that took weeks to build like pure maps, ownkeepass, depecher and telegra.me ?
1 or 2 euro a year ?
have a merry christmas !
EDIT: thank you for your answers, the idea of this thread was NOT to tell Jolla hat they should do somethig about it. That would be a duplicate :) I do also believe that people do spend money on software, but maybe not that many. And i still do believe that an anual payment is better to prevent apps to get orphaned, just ownkeepass right now
no problem with paying here, I would pay for stuff I use and I need of for stuff that is just fun or also for indispensable patches of for a better working Android integration (Calendars, to-do's).
danfin ( 2019-12-19 08:39:01 +0200 )editno problem for me too. could be for a contribution or for a service. that's why i wonder that jolla themselves not produced some apps or options with small contribution, or an app with a service behind...
cemoi71 ( 2019-12-19 09:32:38 +0200 )editI would also be willing to pay a contribution for a product that I use. However, I would like to pay for a product only once and not repeatedly. This is different with a service that I use. Here I gladly accept repeated payments. I am also willing to pay again for meaningful updates. The most important basic functions for using a device should be covered with a one-time payment.
sailaway ( 2019-12-19 10:14:19 +0200 )editOf course. For social app, such as instagram, Line, I will not hesitate to pay 10 euros.
xbt123ufo ( 2019-12-19 10:52:07 +0200 )editAbsolutely
Tanghus ( 2019-12-19 11:08:02 +0200 )edit