All posts tagged: in-app purchase

The Making of Soundproof, part 3: Unlocking features with In-App Purchases

October 20, 2014
by Marc
Development / iOS / User Experience

During the process of making Soundproof, we had to consider what the business model would be. I wrote [some early thoughts about pricing](http://transition.io/is-unlock-everything-a-mistake/) and talked about some [issues with implementing upgrade pricing with In-App Purchases](http://transition.io/my-first-public-ios-app-is-now-available/) previously. Here, we’ll take a brief look at the experience of implementing In-App Purchases and the user experience.

Proposal: How to bring upgrade pricing to your iOS and Mac apps

May 19, 2014
by Marc
Apple / Development / iOS

I was listening to Iterate 67 recently and there was discussion about Readdle‘s apps and how they work together. I was thinking about how they achieve this above and beyond some canOpenURL: smarts, and I presume they are using a shared bundle ID or similar to allow the apps integrate with each other at a deeper level. Somewhat tangentially this got me thinking about a possibility of solving the “there’s no upgrade pricing in the […]