{"id":2640,"date":"2012-11-12T18:07:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T04:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2012-11-12T18:07:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T04:07:03","slug":"angry-birds-star-wars-edition-for-windows-rt-66-more-expensive-than-ipad-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/12\/angry-birds-star-wars-edition-for-windows-rt-66-more-expensive-than-ipad-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Angry Birds Star Wars Edition for Windows RT 66% more expensive than iPad version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/angrybirdssw_surface.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"angrybirdssw_surface\" width=\"488\" height=\"456\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/angrybirdssw_surface.png 488w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/angrybirdssw_surface-300x280.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/>Angry Birds Star Wars Edition for the iPad is as good or better than the original Angry Birds (I&#8217;m not a fan of the other versions). So, I was interested to see the game appear in the Windows RT app store. Unfortunately, the version for RT costs 66% more than the iPad version: $4.99 vs $2.99.<\/p>\n<p>While making more money per sale for developers is a good thing. I think Windows RT app prices need to be competitive with versions of the same app on other platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Note: Composed this app entirely using a Surface with Windows RT. The biggest problem was finding an image editor. None of the RT apps provided freehand cropping. Will discuss how I worked around this in a future blog item.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angry Birds Star Wars Edition for the iPad is as good or better than the original Angry Birds (I&#8217;m not a fan of the other versions). So, I was interested to see the game appear in the Windows RT app store. Unfortunately, the version for RT costs 66% more than the iPad version: $4.99 vs [&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":[23,4],"tags":[230,243,244],"class_list":["post-2640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-mobile-devices","tag-surface","tag-tablet","tag-windows-rt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-GA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640","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=2640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2642,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions\/2642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}