{"id":1555,"date":"2011-12-07T07:00:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2011-12-06T22:27:07","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T08:27:07","slug":"are-10-25-or-50-cent-apps-on-their-way-to-the-android-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/are-10-25-or-50-cent-apps-on-their-way-to-the-android-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Are 10, 25 or 50 cent apps on their way to the Android Market?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/androidmkt_10cents.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/androidmkt_10cents.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"androidmkt_10cents\" width=\"318\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/androidmkt_10cents.png 318w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/androidmkt_10cents-300x159.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/a>A friend of mine reminded me of the Google Android Market&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/market.android.com\/details?id=apps_timed_promotion&#038;feature=banner#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDIwMSwibnVsbC10b3BfZmVhdHVyZWRfbXVsdGlfX18xX3Byb21vXzEzMjMyMjA0NjcyNjMiXQ..\">ten apps on sale for 10 cents<\/a> to celebrate 10 billion app downloads (thanks, Jeff!).<\/p>\n<p>Until now, I assumed that the Android Market&#8217;s minimum app price was either free or around 99 cents. However, since the Android Market has a weird Euro\/Dollar conversion factor with apps given prices like <a href=\"https:\/\/market.android.com\/details?id=org.adwfreak.launcher&#038;feature=top-paid\">$3.32<\/a>, why not have apps priced regularly at 10, 25 or 50 cents? It might not be what most developers want to use as a price. But, there might be apps for which ultra-low (sub-99 cents) prices make sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine reminded me of the Google Android Market&#8217;s ten apps on sale for 10 cents to celebrate 10 billion app downloads (thanks, Jeff!). Until now, I assumed that the Android Market&#8217;s minimum app price was either free or around 99 cents. However, since the Android Market has a weird Euro\/Dollar conversion factor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-mobile-devices"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-p5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}