Thread: very upset about Ovi store
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Laughing Man is offline Laughing Man
2010-07-31 , 21:41
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
Oh come on, let's put this in perspective.

For something that sells for $0.99 on competitor's platform (Angry bird with all level pack on AppStore, ALL FEES INCLUDED); Ovi sells it for $5.97 (3 level packs @$1.99).

ON TOP OF THAT, you may get charged $1.50 (yes, this itself is already more than the competition's total price) per item (or transaction?) because the appstore is only located in .fi.

This brings the total price more than 10x iPhone's price.
($5.97 + $4.50 = $10.47) vs $0.99

With markups that exorbitant, how can you not see that they're bloody expensive?
The whole paying 2 dollars per level on the N900 or 99 cents on the iPhone is simply due to competition and differences in userbase adoption of the hardware/OS. Different scenarios require different practices. People can complain all they want about it but in the end they get to choose whether to buy the app or not. Nobody forces them to buy the application, neither does anyone force them to own an N900 (which I personally think should've never been sold outside of maemo.org). But the Finland thing is BS.
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
They're maemo and MeeGo...

"Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...