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Richard Gaywood:

Before I detail my reasoning, a quick poll: please be honest with me now. How many of you cruise AppShopper’s price drops page for bargains when looking for a new game to while away a boring commute? Or how many of you, when someone recommends an iOS app to you, find the first thing you do is load the AppShopper app to check the “price history” section… and if the app routinely goes on sale for less than it costs now, add it to your wishlist to buy the next time it’s cheap? I’ve done both of these things. I suspect many of you have too.

This is an interesting article, although I’m not sure I agree with a lot of it, but this part caught me off-guard: do a nontrivial number of people really go through all of this trouble to save an occasional dollar on apps for their hundreds-of-dollars iOS devices?

I’d assume that most people who are that price-sensitive wouldn’t be in the market for paid apps at all. But I think the numbers prove that theory wrong.