Mike McGuire

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“Free” iPhone Apps Don’t Always have to be . . .

October 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment

With one minor turn of iPhone App Store policy dial, Apple is enabling all those developers who built “free” iPhone/iPod Touch applications to try and extract a fee for their work. For smaller publishers, or bands or independent labels or video producers, this would seem like a good thing, yes?

Can you say “fremium” app, media companies? I knew you could.

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Tags: Online Music · media business models · online content

1 response so far ↓

  • 1 ted // Oct 17, 2009 at 12:06 am

    hey mike, i guess you’re talking about the new inapp purchase deal that can be applied to free apps? yah pretty crazy. probably a good thing for the little guys. have you seen this site? it’s a list of free apps http://freetouchapps.com/ but i’m not sure if its original. they just wrote about inapp purchase too.

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