$30/year or $4.50/month to track how much water I drink. What are the developers drinking? That’s insane!
I’m not going to pay that much money just to see what incredible changing content they offer each day focusing on drinking glasses of liquids. This is about half the cost of a Netflix subscription, and Netflix has huge licensing and server fees to deal with. What overhead does an app that counts water intake require?
Listen, I get it, every developer needs to stay in business. And first glance this is a fairly pretty interface. But get real- the a single charge for the initial $5 cost of HydroCoach ought to be the top end of what to expect for this. There are several awesome apps that already do what I see HydroCoach does, and don’t think any of them have any charges beyond their initial cost. I can’t imagine any daily development of new content around drinking liquids that can justify a recurring subscription fee to this type of program.
I think Apple has misled a lot of app developers- first with dreams of big money for $0.99 apps, and now with illusions that people will happily pay $5 per month for eternity to each developer of the 18 applications they use. In other words, in a world where decent cell service with data has dropped to $20-30/month, there is anyone willing to pay $90/month total to “subscribe” to programs like this? Sorry guys, I wish you luck but the business plan doesn’t make sense to me.