{"id":43257,"date":"2023-10-20T15:27:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/aussie-app-store-prices-set-to-increase-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:27:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:27:15","slug":"aussie-app-store-prices-set-to-increase-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/aussie-app-store-prices-set-to-increase-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie App Store prices set to increase &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"445\" height=\"352\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/l_app-store-445.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"l_app-store-445\"><\/div>\n<p>Australian iOS users will soon pay more for app purchases with Apple announcing it will be increasing prices by 15%.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Apple sent out an email to developers saying we\u2019ve got the falling Aussie dollar to blame, as <i>9 to 5 Mac<\/i> reports.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen foreign exchange rates change, we sometimes need to update prices on the App Store,\u201d the email says.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin the next 36 hours, prices for apps and auto-renewable in-app purchase subscriptions will increase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The standard $1.29 app will now set you back $1.49 under the increase.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The price increase will also hit Indonesia and Sweden, and will impact app prices, in-app purchases and subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a break from tradition, Apple won\u2019t be cancelling auto-renew subscriptions this time round, instead instructing the developers to warn users of the rise in prices.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In more heartening news for Aussie app enthusiasts, Apple has also signalled plans to introduce a &nbsp;cheaper price tier for apps in the country. Developers will soon have the option to offer apps for $0.99 in a category that has formerly been restricted to \u201cemerging markets\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the first time that the temperamental Aussie dollar has forced us to pay a bit more for <em>Angry Birds<\/em>, with Apple also boosting prices in April last year by 30%.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>Want to grow your business<\/i> <a href=\"startupschool\/events\/how-to-use-instagram-to-grow-your-business\/\"><i>with Instagram?<\/i><\/a> <i><\/i><i>StartupSmart School can help.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian iOS users will soon pay more for app purchases with Apple announcing it will be increasing prices by 15%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}