Finally, there is an opportunity here for other iOS developers. [..] Sparrow is still tough to beat, but in a year or so, it will have fallen by the wayside, and that’s when the opportunity really shows up.
Totally. That's the up-side. But let's imagine a great client does turn up and it's from a group of developers who hate acqui-hires.
They realize they need a recurring revenue stream so two situations (of many) might play out. The first is they say upfront their native app is $5/month and people poo-poo the idea of paying a subscription for an app or its traction is otherwise dampened. The second is they sell an app like normal but then try and introduce a recurring charge later on and suffer the ire of their users (we've all seen the "ew, profiteering!" sneers).
There's surely a "nice" solution somewhere here, but it seems Sparrow didn't quite stumble across it. Who will or has?
Totally. That's the up-side. But let's imagine a great client does turn up and it's from a group of developers who hate acqui-hires.
They realize they need a recurring revenue stream so two situations (of many) might play out. The first is they say upfront their native app is $5/month and people poo-poo the idea of paying a subscription for an app or its traction is otherwise dampened. The second is they sell an app like normal but then try and introduce a recurring charge later on and suffer the ire of their users (we've all seen the "ew, profiteering!" sneers).
There's surely a "nice" solution somewhere here, but it seems Sparrow didn't quite stumble across it. Who will or has?