App Pricing, Piracy, And A Calculator

After a bit of a Twitter exchange on the back of some app piracy frustration, I invited James Thomson (best known for his wonderful calculator app, PCalc) to come and chat about all things piracy and app pricing.

We take a few tangents down subscription pricing, app store reviews, upgrade paths and some essential discussions about the Mac Studio and M1 Ultra.

It was a real pleasure to record with James, especially given some audio challenges we had along the way. A huge shoutout to Squadcast for making the whole process painless, the issues we had didn’t come out on their local recordings and to say it saved the episode would be an understatement.

I really hope you enjoy this episode, do you have any thoughts on app pricing, the app store, or even piracy. If so, we’d love to hear from you, so send a note over to podcast@crossedwires.net, leave a comment on the post, or start a discussion in Goodpods.

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Episode Links

• James Thomson (@jamesthomson) on Twitter
• PCalc Website
• iMac G4
• James’ Tweet About the Pirate
• Audio Hijack by Rogue Amoeba
• Apple Announce WWDC 2022

Chapter Times

1. 00:00:04: Introductions
2. 00:02:15: Bundled Apps
3. 00:03:52: Dealings With Pirates
4. 00:09:23: Subscriptions & Upgrade Pricing
5. 00:12:22: Weeding Out Genuine Requests
6. 00:14:27: App Pricing
7. 00:19:40: The Realities Of Support
8. 00:21:26: Processor Transitions & App Store Only
9. 00:31:09: Respect For Paid Software
10. 00:35:29: WWDC & Apple Silicon
11. 00:42:33: Plugs & Outros

Credits

Intro and outro theme: Ace of Clubs by RoccoW