** Winner of Apple's App of the Year, Apple Design Award, and App Store Editors' Choice. Point is, an app with ongoing costs and development expectations has to be monetized somehow, and a subscription is actually a fantastic way to align user expectations and developer incentives in this case.CARROT Weather is a crazy-powerful (and privacy-conscious) weather app that delivers hilariously twisted forecasts. Could be cheaper to have a few costly sources than many free ones. Having a free source is great, but the more sources you have, the more development costs you incur, so they are not actually free in the end unless you stop at one, but then you lose the ability to effectively target multiple regions. Data costs grow with users and can be significant with user growth, but they are not going to be the biggest cost. You need to pay yourself and anyone else you hire to perform those functions. Significant costs of running and building a weather app include development, marketing, support, App Store fees, and taxes. Personally, as a software engineer, I think it’s a reasonable markup to fund the cost of developing and maintaining the app, but I don’t see a value prop over using the public government data I can get for “free” (I pay taxes). Again, a server or CDN cache could reduce by returning a cached result for people in regions near each other drastically cutting this cost down. That puts an 50% markup on the API costs. Either way though, there’s probably at least 12 hours where it’s not being updated. Widgets may update close to every 30 min if you check your Home Screen a lot. That’s 41x a day, roughly every 30 min, day and night.įor anyone not using a widget, it’s not going to come close. That means your app would have to update 15,204 times a year for them to break even. Their yearly subscription is $19.99/year, but after apples 15% on subscriptions, that’s $16.99 Their worst case pricing is 0.00099€ or $0.00111751 per request, getting cheaper at higher volume tiers. It’s far from free, but I don’t know about it being a lot of money.Īlternatively, maybe they don’t use a server at all and the app makes a call to their data provider directly. Given that the data being transmitted isn’t all that large, this should scale pretty well as CDN costs are cheap. If I were running an app like that, I’d use a caching proxy on a CDN to minimize hits to the server and then cache results on server to minimize calls to the upstream API. /r/AppleMusic for discussion of Apple's music streaming service./r/iOSSetups for iOS wallpapers, setups, and apps./r/iPhoneXSMax for XS Max specific issues./r/AppleSwap if you want to trade devices!.Keep an eye on temporarily free or discounted apps on /r/AppHookup!.Your iPhone broke? Head on over to /r/iphonehelp!.Looking for new Wallpaper? /r/iWallpaper!./r/applemaps for everything Apple Maps!./r/iOSgaming for all your iOS gaming needs!./r/Siri: That wonderful robot that lives in our phones.
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