[wlesieutre]

> There's a reason that app store purchase bottom tier of pricing floats around the $1 range and not the $0.01 range.

I can't speak to Android, but on iOS the reason is that Apple has decided $0.99 will be the lowest price tier [1].

If they wanted to let people have an even crazier race to the bottom, I'm sure we'd see $0.49 apps and then $0.10 apps and $0.01 apps. With password entry there was a nuisance cost, but "scan your fingerprint" is pretty close to frictionless. Tapping the download button is the most difficult part of the transaction.

[1] https://www.macstories.net/stories/a-beginners-guide-to-app-...