{"id":1973,"date":"2015-02-09T00:07:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T08:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=1973"},"modified":"2015-02-09T00:07:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T08:07:28","slug":"paper-app-now-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/09\/paper-app-now-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper app now free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fiftythree\u2019s lovely &amp; opinionated sketching app <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/paper-by-fiftythree\/id506003812?mt=8\">Paper<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2015\/02\/05\/13m-downloads-on-fiftythree-bets-on-stylus-sales-as-all-drawing-tools-in-its-paper-ipad-app-go-free\/\">now completely free to use<\/a>\u2014no more in-app purchases. The company plans to make its money selling hardware:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe want to make the complete Paper experience accessible to as many people as possible, and the global success of Pencil is enabling this,\u201d says [founder Georg] Petschnigg. \u201cPencil\u2019s sales have been fantastic \u2014 the walnut version sold out within weeks of launch, and one year later, Pencil remains the top\u00ad-selling digital stylus internationally.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>More jaundiced take: No matter how good your creative app is, if it runs on a mobile OS, people just aren\u2019t going to pay for it. They\u2019ll drop 30 bucks on an iPhone case or 40 on an iPad cover, but even $5-10 for beautiful software? That\u2019s \u201cpricey.\u201d (See also people buying $700 telephones every two years but balking at paying even $1\/mo. to protect their lifetimes\u2019 worth of photos\u2014this despite the fact that people run out of burning buildings with just their kids &amp; photo albums. So weird.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiftythree\u2019s lovely &amp; opinionated sketching app Paper is now completely free to use\u2014no more in-app purchases. The company plans to make its money selling hardware: \u201cWe want to make the complete Paper experience accessible to as many people as possible, and the global success of Pencil is enabling this,\u201d says [founder Georg] Petschnigg. \u201cPencil\u2019s sales [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions\/1974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}