How much do you spend yearly on mobile apps?
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Does digital subscriptions count? (Score:4, Insightful)
I get MLB at bat premium so I can listen to games radio broadcasts even if I'm travelling. Also have subscriptions to The Economist and WSJ Digital...
Refuse to be nickel and dimed to death (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't install apps with in-app purchases just to avoid the whole problem in the first place. I'd rather spend $5 or $10 right up front and get it all than get hooked for free and dribble out $.99 from time to time.
Why not a "$0" only option (Score:5, Insightful)
This poll would be a lot better if the $0 choice was broken out into it's own option. I would be curious to see how many people spend absolutely no money at all on mobile apps.
Humble Bundle (Score:5, Insightful)
I chose $50+, pretty much entirely because of the Humble Bundle. Since Geek 2.0 came along, most gaming is on my phone.
Almost Nothing (Score:4, Insightful)
Honestly, there's very little worth paying for (for me anyways - everyone has different wants/needs).
99% of the time on my phone is spent in one of a few apps: Browser, Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Google Music, Google Maps, Tapatalk, and Doggcatcher.
Only the last two cost money. Both were only a few bucks and were bought years ago. Don't get me wrong I love my smartphone and spend a ton of time using it - I just have never been fascinated with the bazillion "apps" out there.
Re:Define "App" (Score:2, Insightful)
If you get this grumpy every time someone utters a sarcastic comment on slashdot, you must be a very angry person.
Re:I spend $0 on apps (Score:1, Insightful)
I also consider my privacy an asset that I am not willing to give up in return for a couple of apps. I only install open source apps from an alternative app store or, in rare cases, from apk-files downloaded from trustworthy sources.
After years of using Androids of some kind, I still don't see any point in using the default app store.
WOWZA! (Score:5, Insightful)
I never plat games on my mobile, not have bought any recreational software, but I do purchase my email client and a few others
I need my mobile device for everything, Finding the time and platform of the train I need in the morning and half way through a days work to get to another client site, hailing a taxi, scanning wifi networks for strength and channel consumption, scanning networks for open shares, accessing my email accounts and accessing various other things.
I stopped using any apps with adverts in them 3-4 years ago due to power drain and now run cyanogen with suser for data leakage, but my primary apps are still paid for, if if I don't have them loaded on every device.
If the people on
Re:Define "App" (Score:3, Insightful)
ha yeah maybe I am more angry than the average person...probably not more than the average slashdot user though
i dont go out of my way to find comments to shame...i was genuinely following the conversation back and forth then all the sudden it breaks down
i see it like weeds in a garden...and not the kind you smoke
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Re:Does digital subscriptions count? (Score:5, Insightful)
I agree. I've spent more time playing Kingdom Rush for like $3 than many playstation games which cost $60. I'd happily have paid a few bucks for Candy Crush, but it's free. My only complaint is when the game is impossible to defeat without micropayments. It's not even so much the money as the fact that I effectively have to cheat in order to win.
Re:All I have (Score:5, Insightful)
Is a cellphone. Cell. Phone. It makes phone calls...
Sucks to be you, then. My cell phone takes pictures; measures distances, angles, and levelness; points north; plays music and videos; reads barcodes; displays web pages; identifies stars and planets in the night sky; shows maps; quizzes me on CCNA; plays games; provides reading material; reminds me of appointments; sends and receives email; lights my path; calculates; and myriads of other things. Oh, and of course, it makes phone calls.