Why charge 99 cents for an app that could also just be given away for free?  After all, the economics that go with 99 apps is pretty grim.  Grim as in, don't quit your day job.  Grim as in, welcome to the new World order of whales and free-minums.  It costs about a dollar to drive a single visitor to your app website using online advertising.  If the app store lets you keep about 70 cents on the dollar and you are charging just less than a dollar, it is a losing proposition.  So unless you ar...

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