Microsoft: Don’t Sell the Cheap Apps
By Jared Newman
Hoping to avoid something like the iPhone App Store’s flea market style, Microsoft is encouraging app developers to sell their product for a lot more than 99 cents. While Microsoft isn’t formally blocking such cheap applications, it’s telling developers to build programs with more value, and to charge $6 or even $10 for them. That’s quite a gamble, as Apple’s free-wheeling approach to the app store is part of what makes it so popular. But any iPhone user will tell you that it can be hard to distinguish good from bad, especially when everyone’s looking for the cheap stuff. It’ll be interesting to see if anyone listens to Microsoft, or whether the company will have to impose hard rules like those for Blackberry development. [via Electronista]
