After test the app for two days I agree with the actual price, even 3.99$ more, as I said before it isn't the real problem. But let me two suggestion:
1.- Remove the paragraph in the news that advertise free upgrades for users that buy the app now. It stops the misleadings about it.
2.- Try that the price of the upgrade will be as much the same that the new app. For instance if the new app will cost 12$ and the old 7$, the limit for the upgrade must be 5$. Also I don't agree with the one month limit to pay for the upgrade. Suppose that one buyer don't use the app for a month or isn't advertized about the offer ....
If you are planning about some "version jumps" in the future to get the income that pay your effort, the rigth way is to offer a perpetual upgrade price from one version to another. For instance:
v4 price: 7$
v5 price: 11$
v6 price: 15$
v4 to v5 upgrade: 4$
v5 to v6 upgrade: 4$
v4 to v6 upgrade: 8$
and so on ...
I can tell you about one applicattion that made a big mistake with upgrade costs and it is paying this mistake with less revenues. The app is "Tracktion", a popular and cheap DAW. It was free for users that bougth some mixer consoles from Mackie and also could be bougth standalone. At version 3, the author stops the developing of it. After 2 years Tracktion V4 appeared with an upgrade cost that was the half of the new price. Many users bougth the upgrade, and only 8 months after it, Tracktion 5 was in the market with a new upgrade price that was again the half of the new.
I and many users stops buying the app because T4 was plenty of bugs and without any improvement from T3. And at the end, a user that bougth T3, the T4 upgrade and the T5 upgrade, payed twice the cost of the new T5 version ....
Regards (and excuse my poor english)
1.- Remove the paragraph in the news that advertise free upgrades for users that buy the app now. It stops the misleadings about it.
2.- Try that the price of the upgrade will be as much the same that the new app. For instance if the new app will cost 12$ and the old 7$, the limit for the upgrade must be 5$. Also I don't agree with the one month limit to pay for the upgrade. Suppose that one buyer don't use the app for a month or isn't advertized about the offer ....
If you are planning about some "version jumps" in the future to get the income that pay your effort, the rigth way is to offer a perpetual upgrade price from one version to another. For instance:
v4 price: 7$
v5 price: 11$
v6 price: 15$
v4 to v5 upgrade: 4$
v5 to v6 upgrade: 4$
v4 to v6 upgrade: 8$
and so on ...
I can tell you about one applicattion that made a big mistake with upgrade costs and it is paying this mistake with less revenues. The app is "Tracktion", a popular and cheap DAW. It was free for users that bougth some mixer consoles from Mackie and also could be bougth standalone. At version 3, the author stops the developing of it. After 2 years Tracktion V4 appeared with an upgrade cost that was the half of the new price. Many users bougth the upgrade, and only 8 months after it, Tracktion 5 was in the market with a new upgrade price that was again the half of the new.
I and many users stops buying the app because T4 was plenty of bugs and without any improvement from T3. And at the end, a user that bougth T3, the T4 upgrade and the T5 upgrade, payed twice the cost of the new T5 version ....
Regards (and excuse my poor english)