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Oh, yes, I also bought a map of south west England 1:50 which is better than the default one you get on iPad. It was about £14/£16 at the time but now it's £9. I have 250 apps now so I dread to think how much I have spent over the year.
Brindley said:That could be interesting to calculate exactly how much people have spent on iTunes and on the App store, I bet it's a fortune, but...
'I'm sure there's an App for that'
There probably is "an app for that" but just don't tell my husband because I get a moan every month asking me what I have bought from iTunes this month. It is usually a book from kindle or iBooks or it's another need to have app for my work at school.
OmniFocus - US$ 39.95 (task management)
Invaluable for me, but fills a somewhat specialized need. I suspect most people would be perfectly happy with one of several free alternatives
I always find that free alternatives are just as good as the paid apps usually. I mean if an app offers a paid one and a free one they both usually do the same tasks, the only difference is that on the free app you get alot of adverts etc.
As you may know, a lot of free 'trial versions' do not rely on ads, but rather limit function (e.g., only twenty transactions in a budgeting program). I wish more developers followed this practice since it's often hard to get a good feel for an app based solely on the developer's euphoric description.
Technically, I paid nothing for Dropbox - as to get the app is free (plus, you get 2GB of storage free).
However, I am paying $9.99 (USD) monthly for 50GB storage (actually, $99 a year because of a "discount").
So, in a way, the price of the app is un-measurable, as I intend to keep Dropbox for a long time, and by paying yearly, I keep adding to its cost.
However, $99/year is priceless to me to have "in the cloud" storage for (1) access from any computer and (2) a back-up system. YMMV.
Marilyn
[Who's not sure she got her idea across ... but hopes people will understand what she's trying to say...]
Berghammer said:As you may know, a lot of free 'trial versions' do not rely on ads, but rather limit function (e.g., only twenty transactions in a budgeting program). I wish more developers followed this practice since it's often hard to get a good feel for an app based solely on the developer's euphoric description.
User reviews aren't much help either oftentimes. " works great" " my child loves it" etc often just exasperate the developers descriptionAs you may know, a lot of free 'trial versions' do not rely on ads, but rather limit function (e.g., only twenty transactions in a budgeting program). I wish more developers followed this practice since it's often hard to get a good feel for an app based solely on the developer's euphoric description.