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Hybrid pricing can help app developers better monetize their apps



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It seems like everyone has been talking about Lensa AI this week, but a less obvious point of this AI-enabled chart topper caught my attention: its hybrid pricing. Could it be an example of a new path that more developers will follow? Let’s explore. — Anna
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App pricing has long been a point of contention between Apple and developers. “Staunch Apple critics, like Spotify for example, have argued for years that the lack of pricing flexibility hinders their business,” TechCrunch’s Sarah Perez reported.
Apple seems to have taken complaints into account: This week, the Cupertino firm announced that its App Store pricing system will progressively enable more price points and will allow developers to “set prices for apps, in-app purchases or subscriptions as low as $0.29 or as high as $10,000, …

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