I think this is probably just a really unethical marketing strategy. Start it out at $999.99, the price ceiling for the App Store, get a little bit of attention, drop it down to a dollar, claim it's the biggest price drop in App Store history. Try and get way more attention this way. Then after you hit a certain target number of amount of people who downloaded the app and wrote some reviews about it, steadily increase the price from $1 to $5, make people try to panic into buying it, and then keep doing this until you get a steady incline of sales. Finally, top it all back on to $1,000, after you get enough attention that you may actually be able to get more than a few sales (after wealthy people read the reviews and such). Either that, or it's just a damn scam, and they will not raise it back to $1,000 ever
Either way, it makes a tidy sum for a dev that simple had to create a GUI. Not too bad if it makes himself some good pocket change. If he's going for an life sustaining return, then... yeah...
ahhh!!!!! i just bough it on my computer and its taking forever but when i buy it from the store on my ipod it says i dont have enough space but i have 4 GB! is this because its too big to be downloaded off the ipod? is that possible?
So I've been playing around with the app a bit, and I'm liking it a lot, but some things irk me a bit: - There's no list of letters on the side to jump to a name real quick. You have to manually scroll through the list to get to your destination, there's no shortcut. - There's no way to set a song as a favorite. I find it hard to believe they missed this feature, considering there are 800 musical pieces, all with very similar-sounding names, and some people might be overwhelmed trying to remember which composition they found to be way awesome, as opposed to another similarly-titled one that wasn't so awesome. - The sound quality is a little lacking from what I've listened to. I know these don't demand the clearest quality, but I can't help but feel some of these were recorded off a radio transmitter. - You can't listen to any of the songs outside of the app (not the app's fault, though) - The songs don't have their own play bar, so you can't skip ahead in a song to your favorite part. You have to listen to them from the start, no matter what. This was such a huge thing to forget, though, that I'm thinking it was more of an artistic decision to maintain authenticity with the compositions on display. So I can forgive it for that - All of the songs have links to Wikipedia pages next to them, but all they are are linking to the composer's page. Not a page about that specific song, which is something I really would have liked to see. Still, though, for $1, you really can't complain too much about having 800 classical compositions in one package
