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    Re: Features - QOTW: How much do you spend on apps?

    Probably spent about £20 so far. I am happy to buy them but not many that are that useful to me.

    Saying that, Wyse Pocketcloud and Tapatalk were probably worth a lot more to me than they cost.
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    Re: Features - QOTW: How much do you spend on apps?

    So far, in total, £0.

    There are a few I might buy (like Tapatalk), and a few more, especially to get rid of adverts. But to date, £zero.

    PC software, on the other hand, I shudder to think how much I've spent, but it's on everything from the OS to genealogy software, and Office to my book collector database.

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    Re: Features - QOTW: How much do you spend on apps?

    Zero... The only time I'll probably ever spend money on the play store would be for a Nexus device(when it becomes available in my country)

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    Re: Features - QOTW: How much do you spend on apps?

    To date, I think I've only spent €7ish or something on apps, the most expensive of which was Tasker, it saves me from having to do a lot of manual fiddling with my phone.
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    Re: Features - QOTW: How much do you spend on apps?

    When I made my last post I forgot that I also bought some office suite for Android. It was when I was beta testing SoftMaker Office for Android, and I wanted a comparison point, and it was just $8 or so. Since then I bought another one when it was really cheap.

    So with that, the games related apps and games and game bundles, I'm definitely over £10, though probably still less than £20.

    What I'm not considering here is the Kickstarter projects I backed for the Android version of a game or pledged more because of it. That would raise the sum significantly, though probably still less than £50 in total. (I pledged a lot more for pure PC games, though I would have loved for them to also do an Android version.)

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    Re: Features - QOTW: How much do you spend on apps?

    I've paid for loads of apps, for two main reasons - firstly I hate the look of ads and would rather have the paid version without them, I don't trust ads to not be redirects to malware sites and accidental taps are just annoying. Secondly I actually believe in paying other people for their efforts, so if I like an app and use it then I'd like the developers to get some money. It actually annoys me when there is no premium version without ads, I'm likely to not use those apps and find another.

    I have probably spent £50 or more on Google Play store by now.

    I wonder if they asked what would be the value of apps (particularly games) that people *should* have paid for but instead pirated...

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    Re: Features - QOTW: How much do you spend on apps?

    £0.0

    (Although once I did pay £2 and bought a friends app to support his launch - in hindsight, a beer would have been better!)

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    Re: Features - QOTW: How much do you spend on apps?

    Quote Originally Posted by kingpotnoodle View Post
    Secondly I actually believe in paying other people for their efforts
    I agree with that. However my experience of most -- if not all -- apps is that I get an initial "oh, that's cool", fiddle around for a bit, then never quite get around to running them again. So my app-enabled devices have become like my bottom kitchen drawer... full of bits & bobs which will be totally invaluable. One day. But not now. Or yesterday, or even last year. In fact, come to think of it, why am I storing that junk? :-)

    I'm probably just not finding the right apps.

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    Re: Features - QOTW: How much do you spend on apps?

    I must admit that I initially had some reservations about purchasing paid apps, but after a while I came to the conclusion that i'm happy to spend £3-£4 on a pint of beer that lasts half an hour, but worry over spending 69p on an app that I suspect i'll get quite a bit of use out of ... so I changed my mind! That said, i've probably only spent around £15-£20.

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