The Pod Sage

Dave Jones, collected

Wisdom

Let apps set their fees, require transparency, and let the market sort it out

there's gonna be a fee, the apps gonna take a fee, they can they can decide what that fee is. The critical part is they have to, they just have to be transparent about it.

Episode 91: Splitting the Tab 00:48:06

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Summary

In a long debate with Adam over value-for-value app fees, Dave's position: apps decide their own fee, but they must be transparent about it. Visibility and public disapproval keep fees in check. An app that charges far more than the rest won't survive, so the problem corrects itself.

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  1. Episode 20: we are mapping the road. My love Fridays (approx., from transcript intro) 01:14:16

    that activity needs to be transparent, it can't be that people are just silently sucking money out everywhere, that it has to be known.

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  2. Episode 91: Splitting the Tab 00:50:35

    what will stop people from charging exorbitant fees is they know, they know that everybody knows about it, and everybody takes a dim view of it.

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  3. Episode 91: Splitting the Tab 01:01:07

    Maybe the app needs to charge that much. And if they do, and nobody else does, then they won't survive. And the problem corrects itself.

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  4. Episode 91: Splitting the Tab 01:10:50

    if a an app started doing something shady with monetization, you can bet that the industry watchers would call them out.

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  5. Episode 91: Splitting the Tab 01:29:38

    I'm going to trust that that's what they have decided they have to charge.

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