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0 pointsslg3y ago0 comments

>but lead to "ugly" prices in other regions

Isn't this change an introduction of those ugly prices? If I'm reading the new rules correctly, Apple now supports prices like 7.39 or 37.40. I guess they don't end in a 1-4 or 6-8, but they aren't the cleanest numbers either. And if that last digit is really the problem, rounding to the nearest 5 is always a possibility.

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mynameisvlad3y ago

7.39 should be possible as part of the 10c price step, but how would you get 37.40 out of the system? You could do 37.00, 37.90, 37.95, or 37.99 via the "X." ones, and the first category would all end in X9.

slgOP3y ago

They say .50 price steps are possible in the 10-50 range so X.90 + .50.

mynameisvlad3y ago

So the way I read it is as two separate systems:

Developers can go in 10c price steps from $0.29 to $9.99 (0.39, 0.49, 0.59, etc), or in 50c price steps from $0.49 to $49.99 (0.49, 0.99, 1.49, 1.99, etc), etc OR developers can use the 4 supported conventions for any price in those ranges, as long as you fit within the convention.

But you cannot start at a supported convention and then use the price steps.

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0 pointsslg3y ago0 comments

>but lead to "ugly" prices in other regions

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mynameisvlad3y ago

slgOP3y ago

They say .50 price steps are possible in the 10-50 range so X.90 + .50.

mynameisvlad3y ago

So the way I read it is as two separate systems:

But you cannot start at a supported convention and then use the price steps.

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