We’re only just now gaining the ability to see Purchased apps in a filtered list with iOS 5, but to say that Apple hasn’t been working on the overall presentation and experience of the App Store over the past three years would be a lie. Genius recommendations, Universal App symbols, and universal promo codes have made dealing with the growing mass of fart, task, and writing apps much easier.
There are still a lot of things that could use work, but here’s one that seems to be an almost-hilarious oversight on the part of Apple and certain developer website: the reliance on the App Store to show the price of an app.
I’ve had quite a number of experiences with this already, but ToDo Mac was my most recent one. If you head to the Appigo website you’ll see a bullet point list of all the fantastic features the app has to offer, but not a word about price. There’s only a link to head to the Mac App Store to check it out in full. However, if you tap on that link from my iPad or my iPhone, you’ll be brought to your device-specific App Store and shown the screenshot I embedded above: a screen kind enough to show the ToDo Mac icon and details about how you can’t buy it from my iPad…but still nothing about the price. In fact, since very few blogs have posted about the ToDo Mac release, I actually had to go back to my Mac to check the price.
This is definitely an edge case, but it’s still one area where the personal computer could still use some demoting…or at least where the iPhone and iPad could use some promoting.
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