So Eucalyptus is now approved, but the author now has other problems to worry about:
Ola
Uhm, your app does not seem to do anything else than Stanza - which is free. I don’t see the point of buying it
steve
you put project gutenberg in the apps tore and you think you deserve ten bucks for that? more like things made out of other people’s things
Yet another user says he’ll wait until the price drops to $1.99. *sigh* Do we really have to go over this again?
The content shown by this app might be available ‘for free’, but the entire presentation layer was designed, written, and will be maintained by the author. Do you *really* believe that simply because project Gutenberg makes the raw text of various books available that the author of the application doesn’t deserve any remuneration for his work? Really, if the only value you see is that you can access free content from Gutenberg, then just view the raw text files in Safari. And then if anything needs fixing in Eucalyptus, the author will be sufficiently remunerated that he will be able to spend the time fixing it rather than cramming at his day job.
Remember: the price you pay for an app isn’t just providing remuneration for having assembled it to this point (that’s largely moot—it’s already available & therefore ‘paid for’ by the author after all). You’re paying so that the author can continue to work on the application and can support it if/when things go wrong; therefore the end price is based upon the complexity of maintaining that application. Simple throwaway apps cost nothing (or next to nothing) because they won’t likely require four-day overnight debugging sessions to track down some rare bug which has the vocal 2% of its userbase screaming blue murder. More expensive apps like Eucalyptus (and Outpost) cost more because they are very complex internally, and therefore require significantly more time and effort to maintain.
