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0 pointssimonw3y ago0 comments

They could do that, but then users in some countries would have to pay 0.693 of their local currency or whatever. Why should the US be the only country that gets friendly looking prices?

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TedDoesntTalk3y ago

I'm an American. I routinely buy things in GBP, EUR, and JPY and the amounts convert to an arbitrary number in USD. So what? It is displayed to me as 9.99 EUR. I understand I'm not going to have a nice, pretty .99 at the end of my credit card transaction.

gumby3y ago

Yes, but you don't know that in the App store: you're buying from your "local" store regardless of where the developer is.

simonwOP3y ago

I would expect that the vast majority of human beings very rarely buy anything in a currency other than that of their own country.

jw12243y ago

The point is that price points already are friendly-looking in every country. Price points are adjusted in each country, they’re not a 1:1 match with $USD.

bmicraft3y ago

Or just let the dev specify if they want to round prices to some precision?

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