Game Changer? Free iPhone Apps can now upsell content.

Apple made a huge policy change recently that will have a major impact on how iPhone apps and content will be distributed through the App Store.  Stories from Techcrunch, MacRumors and AppleInsider all discuss the announcement and the impact this new policy will have.

I am looking for feedback from the developer community.  I have the following questions for developers who would like to participate.  I will provide my findings in a future post.

1. Do you currently use notifications or store-kit in your application?
2. If so, did you develop and manage your own web-service or did you outsource it? If so. whom did you outsource it to?
3. If you don’t use notifications or store kit currently, do you plan to in the future?
4. If so, next 3 months, 6 months, year?
5. Will it be implemented in new or existing app?
6. Do you plan on developing your own web-service or look to outsource it?
7. Are you looking to add notifications, in-app purchases or both?
8. If you were looking to include in-app purchases, which of the following, new feature unlock, new content or subscriptions would be implemented?
9. If you plan on implementing down-loadable content or subscription data into your app, is this content developed in house or from a third party source?
10. Would your app be free or paid?
11. Does the new change in the rules to allow free apps to have in-app purchases affect your decision to include store-kit in your app?

If I use your response in my blog, I will link back to those who want to be mentioned by name and share their company info with me.

Please send your answers to olddognewtech@gmail.com

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