The 2014 Panic Report

Via Gruber:

Games are a different market, but for other apps, I think iOS apps are more like websites than Mac apps. People expect them to be free to use. There are exceptions of course — successful paid websites and successful paid iOS utility apps — but as a basic rule of thumb I’m pretty sure I’m right.

Sadly I have to agree. I know I’m tiring of deleting iPhone apps that no one has maintained in years. Not sure what this means for the platform long-term. We’re right to be concerned.