but we (still) can’t properly due to how Apple laid out the app store<\/a>. But they give us a stability we urgently need for future development.
\nMembership pricing is around or below the value you would pay for around annual or two-year updates of comparably feature rich apps. Even if you’re in a membership for 10 years, you only reach around the price of your Hue starter set<\/b>, not even counting any additional hardware!
\nYou are free in your choice to take a membership, otherwise you’ll always have access to the basic app.<\/p>\nWhy can’t I just have one fee and get everything?
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\nBecause every time we add something new you would still have a new purchase. Also, because our tax system doesn’t work like this and neither do we. Our tax systems favour long term incomes over short time peaks. A single value would mean a peak, which would be mainly eaten by taxes, and after that, no income at all – a lot of the money you spent doesn’t end there where it’s needed. We can’t work without an income, and having a steady income ensures you a continued and up-to-date app.<\/p>\nWhy isn’t there a free test version?
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\nThere is no “free test meal” in a restaurant, is there? You go to a restaurant and expect things to work out, because people working there have an experience in their job. You pay because people do their job serving you a meal. If there’s something wrong, people will try to solve it for you.
\nWe are working on this app with experience of about a decade – and we are working on it every day, for you. If there’s something wrong, you can contact us anytime.<\/p>\nSome apps are for free. Why do I pay for this one?
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\nContrary to hardware producers like Philips, we don’t sell lights and hence cannot cross-finance an app via hardware sales. We also don’t sell your data<\/b> in order to create an income – like many social networks and several other apps do.
\nAll more complex 3rd party lighting apps aren’t free, either, as soon as you want to work with them more seriously, plus, we have regular support which means regular costs. It’s more that they use the initial free-to-install app as a way to gain market share and\/or to get you to pay for their upgrade anyway.
\niConnectHue is being produced professionally, by people who know what they’re doing, and who are dedicated to their work. Some of them do it daily, and they need to pay their bills like you do as well.<\/p>\nThis is what you get for it: Updates are frequent, problems are being solved quickly, your ideas are considered and support is available – that’s more than many other apps do offer, and we think it’s worth it!<\/i><\/b> Do you want a cheap app or an app that is being taken care of? Do you want your data to be sold (like so many big companies and free apps do it), or should it be kept private, like iConnectHue does?
\nThe price of iConnectHue is more realistic than of most other apps and allows it to be a professionally made project. We want to give you a good Hue app in the long term – but we need your support for this, too! We need to pay the people who work for it.<\/p>\n
Another comparison: Buying one full version of iConnectHue with several in app purchases costs you less than a menu at a normal restaurant. After 30 minutes, your meal is gone, the support for it (waiter\/waitress, cook, restaurant) is finished. And it’s not the last one of your day, and the next day you’ll need to buy another one. For less than this price you get an app and somehow expect to use and have it for the full lifetime of your product and probably also need support in that time. Consider this: You get a job, and your employer pays you once at the beginning and expects you to work for several years, without any additional payment. Would you do that?
\nIf you think the price is high, think again: We only get around 56% of the what you pay (you need to subtract the VAT and off that take Apple’s cut of 30%), then we pay taxes again on top of that. So one app sold is not even getting us food for one of us for for half a day – but it may be useful to have a healthy and alive team to get further updates ;).<\/p>\n
If you like to support iConnectHue, consider buying the in app purchases or taking a membership. You’ll by that way lay a foundation for continued development and new features (and several of them are free!). You can bring yourself into the game by giving feedback what you like and what you don’t – and what you need.
\nThen again, compare the price of this app to the price of your iPhone or your Hue system. It’s the least price of them all, but makes them work together like a charm!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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