• napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    You are comparing the old simple “Remove Ads” option to Sync Ultra features.

    The new “Remove Ads” without additional features costs 14,99 €. Which, yes, is more expensive than before, but that was to be expected. The old price would have been way too cheap for today’s pricing situation, especially since he also lost most of his userbase.

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      1 year ago

      “today’s pricing situation” u mean 2 months ago? Also “hes lost most of his userbase”

      selling 50$ tshirt for 500$ because there are less customers and I want even less what is this argument lmfao

      • napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        The price was set many years ago and just never changed.

        Also yes, less customers means less income for mostly the same amount of work. That is literally why bigger companies can offer cheaper prices. Scale.

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          1 year ago

          What scale dev doesnt have a factory theres no production, company size doesnt matter

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            1 year ago

            That was in response to your comparison with t-shirts.

            And yes, scaling does not work in the same way for app development. A large part of the required work for app development stays the same, regardless of how many actual users there are (excluding server costs (-> Sync Ultra) and probably the amount of support tickets). But since Sync has way less users now, there has to be more income per user for it to be profitable.

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              1 year ago

              Ad removal has no server costs and now it costs 2.5x as much as it did 1 month ago

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                1 year ago

                I literally just explained why the price per person needs to be higher now. It is not about server costs. It is about the cost of app development and maintenance.

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                  1 year ago

                  Uh huh so according to your logic now that I wont buy it like I planned to, you and the others will have to pay even more? Good luck

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                    1 year ago

                    Of course a single user is irrelevant, but in principle and if it would evolve into a larger trend: yes. At least if the dev wants to keep paying his bills. That is how business works. And with lower user counts at some point the required price per user would be too high to be competitive. Then the dev would have to abandon the project, since it would not be profitable anymore. He is a full-time developer after all.