Comments on: The App Economy Will Change, Just Not Yet http://jakeo.org/blog/2009/12/02/the-app-economy-will-change-just-not-yet/ brain_get_contents(jake_olsen); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:31:25 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: jakeo http://jakeo.org/blog/2009/12/02/the-app-economy-will-change-just-not-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-118400 jakeo Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:16:21 +0000 http://jakeo.org/blog/?p=271#comment-118400 From Facebook: Tracy Rolling So, cell phone apps. I'm not personally very hot on video games, so I can't really speak to that. I did just pay for Boggle, which I think is great. People are willing to pay for applications, but the applications have to be either genuinely useful (Read it Later) or amazingly cool (Ocarina). and the people selling them have to help us find them. I've recently paid for a math flash card application and a period tracker. Erik shelled out quite a bit for his German-English dictionary and doesn't regret it a bit. I imagine that one of the big reasons that people are less willing to pay for games on their phones is because the experience of playing a real bona fide video game on the phone is not so great compared to playing on a console. I wonder if social games, where you build and grow things, are doing better.... See More I could totally imagine paying to have Civilization on my phone.... does that make me an oldster? From Facebook: Tracy Rolling
So, cell phone apps. I’m not personally very hot on video games, so I can’t really speak to that. I did just pay for Boggle, which I think is great.

People are willing to pay for applications, but the applications have to be either genuinely useful (Read it Later) or amazingly cool (Ocarina). and the people selling them have to help us find them. I’ve recently paid for a math flash card application and a period tracker. Erik shelled out quite a bit for his German-English dictionary and doesn’t regret it a bit.

I imagine that one of the big reasons that people are less willing to pay for games on their phones is because the experience of playing a real bona fide video game on the phone is not so great compared to playing on a console. I wonder if social games, where you build and grow things, are doing better…. See More

I could totally imagine paying to have Civilization on my phone…. does that make me an oldster?

]]> By: jakeo http://jakeo.org/blog/2009/12/02/the-app-economy-will-change-just-not-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-118399 jakeo Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:15:49 +0000 http://jakeo.org/blog/?p=271#comment-118399 From Facebook: Manny Roldan Hey it's like what social media is doing to friendships and communication. An indepth conversation must now fit into 140 characters From Facebook: Manny Roldan
Hey it’s like what social media is doing to friendships and communication. An indepth conversation must now fit into 140 characters

]]> By: CJ http://jakeo.org/blog/2009/12/02/the-app-economy-will-change-just-not-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-117746 CJ Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:22:50 +0000 http://jakeo.org/blog/?p=271#comment-117746 You're just jealous you didn't make $40k on your iPhone app... :) You’re just jealous you didn’t make $40k on your iPhone app… :)

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