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Nov 5, 2016 at 23:50
Coding Horror offers an interesting explanation for why apps are cheap: it's very hard to assess value!
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App-pocalypse Now
App-pocalypse Now
I’m getting pretty sick of being nagged to install your damn apps. XKCD helpfully translates: Yeah, there are smart app banners, which are marginally less annoying, but it’s amazing how quickly we went from “Cool! Phone apps that finally don’t suck!” to this sad, eye rolling, oh-great-of-course-you-have-an-app-too

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