$1K iPhone app

http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/17/most-expensive-iphone-app-barmax/

by NonEUCitizen • 17 years ago

31 14 17 years ago

They could have started out at like 49.99 and then just charged for in app purchases.

almost• 17 years ago

I think people might have been a little upset to find that they needed to pay a further $949.01 to access all the parts of the course :)

brianobush• 17 years ago

You have to look at the market. People that buy this app are going to be "in the know" and be serious about the bar exam and thus willing to spend some serious time AND money preparing for it. For the target audience this is not random purchase.

theashworld• 17 years ago

I think another important thing to note is that $300 of it goes to apple. Time to buy apple stock!

PanMan• 17 years ago

Quite interesting: I don't think I have seen (serious) software for handsets that's more expensive than the hardware (for PC's this isn't uncommon). If you want to run this, the costs of an iPod Touch to run it on are almost negligible (well, about 20%).

smokey_the_bear• 17 years ago

Buying topo maps for handheld GPS devices can easily cost more than the device itself. Garmin charges $120 for topo maps of the northeast alone, for a device that costs 100-200.

I've seen a lot of commercial uses for rugged palm pilots too, the special case software for that is probably quite expensive.

akd• 17 years ago

As handsets become cheaper for the computing they deliver, this will become an accepeted norm for specialized software (my computer costs less than 10% of the value of the software on it)

jasonlbaptiste2• 17 years ago

hunch: this is how the textbook market should be in general (obviously not 1,000 per app). i have a feeling the tablet will be the platform for content like this/textbooks.

teye• 17 years ago

Classic market waiting to be disrupted. Every lawyer I know did BarBri.

DrJokepu2• 17 years ago

To be honest, I'm a bit surprised that after forking out x * 10^5 or even 10^6 dollars on tuition fee, you have to spend thousands of dollars on apps and textbooks to stand a chance on the exam. There is something very wrong with the US higher education system.

plinkplonk• 17 years ago

" even 10^6 dollars on tuition fee"

there are people who spend a million dollars on tuition? references?

DrJokepu2• 17 years ago

Ooops... I meant 10^4 or even 10^5... I fail at basic maths.

zepolen• 17 years ago

I know this is 'hacker' news, but 100,000 is much more readable.

$1K iPhone app

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