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App Sale Patterns?
Has anyone noticed when apps tend to go on sale, other than xmas?
I've noticed that when apps are on sale, it seems like loads are on sale. But when there aren't many sales (like now) hardly any are.
Surely the devs don't coordinate. 
I'm getting tired of buying apps just before they go on sale, or just after they've been on sale. I never seem to hit it right. Started paying attention and set up several apps I want on appshopper so that I'll get a notice. But I was curious if the devs tend to all do a sale at specific times of the year?
Really want MitoSynth, Borderlands, and Flux... and a couple others that aren't on sale, but I'm holding fast until the next time all the devs decide they want to grease the ol' app store with a good sale.
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I think, if you are not ready to pay the full price, you don't really need that app
Oh, I don't need 90% of my apps.... if you want to talk about real need. I just like well designed apps that give me pleasure, but I'm not wealthy, so I'm forced to shop and wait for sales.
So... shoot me for wanting to save some money.
I really wish there was an app resale app. for re-selling your used unwanted/unneeded apps where apple will still get a cut off the deal but then would make a cut again as the funds would go to buying new apps. Like I wanna sell boaderlands and others to raise cash for Aum as I also got the time zone messed up and missed the sale. It was 10 pm and it spread was at reg price so like you I often dont time it right.
But an app reseller app would be awesome!!
Now that you mention it... I don't really need ANY of my apps.
Thanks for much for setting me straight. I'll save the money and take a trip instead.
Hehe.. You know, when buying something for $5 while the regular price is $10, you don't save $5 - you spend $5
I'm an appoholic myself though a recovering one. I spent some time analyzing my buying habits and I found out that I've bought dozens of apps on sale because I thought one day I might need them. Of course, most of them remain unused. And those I'm using often, I would have definitely bought no matter on sale or not (and would have saved more money than during uncontrolled spending during Black Friday and similar sales)
Just food for thought...
PS. Also, I'm finding that losing a job is the best way to heal one's appoholism
I waited for months for ifretless bass to go on sale. Maybe half a year or better. It never did. So I bought it, and it was and is spectacular.
I am waiting for a Sale on PSP plug-ins for Auria. I don't need any of them. Want, for sure.
Sooooo... more specifically, has anyone noticed any pattern or trend to apps sales in general? Or, is it pretty much random?
Yes. And There are tools to track app prices that have histories of sales going back multiple years. Appsliced.co is one. If an app never goes on sale a quick look at the details will tell you. It's been useful for me being 1) broke and 2) relatively new to iOS with a crazy large number of apps I know nothing about and also desperately want
This is insidious. But maybe that's what keeps the iOS music development ball rolling. People spending 5 bucks over and over again because it's only 5 bucks. And someone wants to squeeze even more out of it by reselling their unused apps to others who I'd imagine will resell them yet again. How long can it go on? LOL. Wouldn't it be easier and better if Apple just allowed trials, and then respectable prices if someone actually wants the app?
I think I've done pretty well---not as well as I'd like---keeping my app purchases down. Not because of the money. It's about the time it takes to learn an app and have it be useful to me. I'd rather spend more time with fewer apps, so I only buy what I've really researched and believe will be used, and also avoid redundancy. It's still too much. I wish I could help answer the question about sales, but I don't wait for them.
Well, here's the gist of what I was after...
I have enough apps. The ones I've purchased over the last month are dense & beautiful. I'm playing with a few right now trying to learn them better.
There are a few I'd like to get. Not because I need, but because they look fun.
I set up an account on appshopper to get a notification of sales or changes on those apps. I noticed some apps I paid full price for, had only cost a fraction of what I paid just a couple weeks prior, i.e. I paid $14 & the same app sold for $1.99 just before I bought it. Makes me feel like a sucker.
So, since I don't really need ANY of these apps at all. And certainly don't need to buy them immediately, I might as well wait until the devs cut their prices. Looks like they all do it for Xmas, but I can't get a read for the rest of the year.
Wondering if they tend to for holidays like uncomming St. Patrick's day? Easter? Spring Break? SXSW Interactive/music fest & conference?
Or, it's completely random with no real trend/pattern, rhyme or reason?
Black Friday, apps launch, sister apps launch, when a app officially gets abandoned, random.
http://www.musicappnews.com/great_deals.php
Indeed, but on the other hand, your job was pointless:
No, it wasn't because I am a robot
It's not always about what the app does, it's often the buzz of excitement we get from having something new
The wishlist is a great way of pressing buy without pressing buy. I have not bought quite a few apps just because I put them in the wishlist first, adding them felt like I had reserved a copy so the urge to actually buy was reduced, this helped me separate what I thought I wanted from what I actually wanted and needed.
As for patterns in sales, none that i have noticed, but yes I noticed the same thing where when one goes on sale, others follow.
I've bought a very few, for no other reason than I thought they were so well executed, functional design as well as aesthetics. Like a little piece of art that you can actually make something with if you choose.
Mostly I try to do research, read reviews, watch demo videos first, look at the app's history to see if it's being maintained, etc... then decide if I'm actually going to use it... or if it's just going to take up room on my devices and be forgotten.
Until recently, when I set up appshopper to see the app's launch price, and how much the dev has yo-yo'd up and down with the pricing... that's added a whole new wrinkle in the decision-making process.
There are usually app sales around the big holidays so there will likely be some apps on sale around Easter in a few weeks. Some apps NEVER go on sale (check the price history in Appshopper) so if you want to buy them there is no need to wait for them to go on sale. StepPolyArp and ChordPolyPad come to mind (both are GREAT apps).
you need one of these for that
The available IAP's can turn it into this
Don't know when they will be on sale though
I get the typical big holiday sales that everyone can anticipate without special knowledge, but I really don't see the advantage for a developer to make a schedule of discounts available for everyone to see. A seller might even avoid being too predictable, as it costs them money if potential customers are delaying their purchases in order to spend less. I'd imagine sales are also motivated by a changing market rather than a schedule. If discounts are important to a consumer, then the only option may be to wait until they're offered.