Apple Launches $0.99 Facetime Hd App For Mac

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Click to expand.Apple-friendly analysis: At the moment, Better Rename is the #2 best-seller. 'See and talk with the grandkids,' vs. 'Rename your files.' Which do you think is going to sell better?

1/3 of Macs is still a lot. Based on comments in the App Store, FaceTime usage seems to be driven by iOS device usage, and iOS device ownership is much greater than Mac ownership. So, you own an aging Mac (not capable of free upgrade to Mavericks). One or more family members acquire an iOS device.

Less Apple-friendly analysis: Why don't they have, 'Included in Mac OS X Lion, Mountain Lion, and Mavericks, click here for a free upgrade to Mavericks (if your Mac can run it)' written boldly in the app description? Final Analysis: Business is business.

Apple Launches $0.99 Facetime Hd App For Macbook

Apple has learned that free OS upgrades more than pay for themselves in terms of customer satisfaction/retention/spending, and free OS upgrades are a benefit that Microsoft and the makers of Windows PCs can't afford to match. FaceTime, on the other hand, is something that people purchase out of need, and at $0.99, is not likely to negatively impact customer retention. Why give it away for free when, clearly, people are willing to pay the price of one iTunes Store song (or a McDonald's Value Menu burger) to see the smiling faces of their relatives half-way 'round the world?

Apple has released a fix for the FaceTime app on older versions of OS X, specifically OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Users of older software, as we reported last week, have been seeing issues with FaceTime, unable to connect and complete calls, for unknown reasons.Apple released version 1.0.5 of the $0.99 app to address the issue.

Click to expand.It matters because it gives clues about the the success of the Mac App Store. Apple is secretive about sales numbers.

If it is true that an old app that only the older 1/3 of Macs would need is a top seller, then that says something about app store sales numbers. If that doesn't matter to you, then maybe you should stop posting on this thread. If there was ever a place that people might care about this, then I would think it would be in the 'Mac Apps and Mac App Store' section of MacRumors. Click to expand.No, it doesn't give clues. Apple freely gives enough numbers to illustrate the success of the Mac App Store.

You're not going to figure out specific sales numbers based on the ranking of a particular app. Your initial post indicates no interest in Mac App Store sales numbers or success, but rather an interest in insulting users who buy an app that you don't think they should be buying. People buy what they want or need.

Apple Launches $0.99 Facetime Hd App For Mac Pc

If you need or want the app, buy it. If you don't, then don't. Click to expand.Clearly it was a simple typo.

He probably meant to say 100 Trillion. This is obvious by his claim of 1/3 of all Macs. His logic is actually sound. Provided that sales were driven by Macs in isolation. Statistically, it would be very unlikely that an app would be #1 running only on the oldest systems. However, in the case of FaceTime, it is skewed greatly by the fact that FaceTime is now running on iOS and for all the good reasons stated in previous posts.

People not able to upgrade still want FaceTime.