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What should be the right price for Wolfram Alpha? you decide

TechCrunch is rightly pointing at the fact that the new beautiful app by Wolfram Alfa is way too expensive ($50)

how about free? i don't see why i would pay on the mobile for something that is free from my computer. Maybe they should have tried to leverage the new in-App purchase by allowing a few requests for free and then asking people to pay. Wolfram alpha is not a killer brand yet. so i would expect it to try to get market share at first before charging.

So let's have a little poll. What should the price of the app be?

Answer here in this poll

ps: you can download the app from here if you are really not price sensitive

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Not all App Stores are equal: Blackberry apps 3X more expensive than the iPhone

Don't forget the minimum listing price in Blackberry App World is $2.99 (which needs to change...) via techcrunch.com

 

iPhone apps are cheaper than their computer equivalent

MacApper has an interesting post on how the same app for the iPhone is cheaper than the same or similar app on the computer or video console. And the ratio is about x10 or x15 cheaper. This being said sometimes convenience of usage should necessarily drive your choice to the most expensive solution (the computer) simply because it still way more convenient to use an app on a computer when you are in front of your computer.

We put together all the apps mentioned in this post below

AppMix: the Top 10 most expensive apps are worth more than 3k$. Check them out here

If this is your first iPhone homes creen (or even 2nd or 3rd..), you are either very rich or very disturbed :)
Here is the full selection.

AppsFire survey: Discover the ★ top 50 ★ most revenue generating apps

Most downloaded does not equal necessarily most revenue making. We have published a new survey that allow us to know which apps are making most revenues in the App Store (we call it TOP GROSSING APPS). The note was published by ReadWriteWeb a few hours ago


You can read here the full detail of our survey and the corresponding results. You can also view here an excel document with the name/category/price of those apps in decreasing order.

This list computed using the simple UNITS SOLD x UNIT PRICE formula may yield a few 'outliers' and the science is not perfect (i.e. we do not know if the top app has been given away with vouchers, or whether the price is the same today as it was at the time of purchase, etc...). In any case, the findings are staggering: the money makers are real apps, all very solid, all but one with a price tag greater or equal to $2.99, but often well above $10.00. The top app costs $899 and the second one $99. These apps solve real issues, and are made by solid developers. And guess what, they are deriving serious revenues too!

The results are very different from the top download ranking. Here are the top 10 (in decreasing order)

  • iRa Pro
  • MobileNavigator Europe
  • Air Sharing (Document Viewer, File Storage)
  • OmniFocus
  • Things
  • BeejiveIM 3.0 with Push
  • Tweetie
  • Midomi Music Identifier and Search (Ultra)
  • LogMeIn Ignition
  • 1Password
Oh and one more thing before anyone screams. We do not include in our survey apps that have been installed via jailbreak. However some of those apps may have been installed via voucher (which is still equivalent to paid)

The bottom line: a useful app priced correctly will be a big money maker.