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by krisgee 2129 days ago
My god, Apple requiring a price for apps would be best thing that's happened to the mobile environment in AGES.

I'm a mobile game dev and I would sacrifice a child to go back to the days when people would pay 0.99 for a game.

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The current mobile F2P game market of about half a dozen distinct types of Skinner box, copied precisely and rethemed a zillion times, is quite grim. (Fortnite is an actual game, to be fair)

Apple really should shake up that market, though it's hard to say how a $0.99 minimum would work out in the end.

Surely all free games currently would just be $0.01?
On Apple, the minimum price for anything is $0.99.

You can't set arbitrary prices - only price bands.