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the pricing issue is very interesting, but there's not a lot of meat to the story here. i'd like to see the developer find a way to interview the people who bought the increasingly pricey app and try to actually get some data to go with the conjecture.

otherwise, in a competitive marketplace you need to differentiate and promote your product constantly, i would think that's a given and not really a fault of the app store. is there a design decision which can help that? i'm not sure. i'm sure we don't want Apple to be MORE selective of which apps they allow in some kind of attempt to separate the chaff, though, and that means your awesome app may always be outnumbered by crap.