This is not an Apple hate or love piece, I love my iPad and my Nexus 7 with equal measure and I think they both bring great joy to my life and I also spend real (paper) money on the odd (paper) magazine namely
Ride Magazine and
Fast Bikes Mag (gotta plug the pulp every now and again).
So I have been doing a lot of research recently for my full time gig on what the best pricing structures are on the
Apple newsstand and I have noticed a curious issue that is annoying a lot of users in relation to NewsStand.
It appears that a lot of users are becoming enraged at theprospect of downloading a free app container app only to realise that they then have to pay to get access to the actual content.
Here is a sample of the complaints below which were taken from a great article about this phenomenon
here on slackstory.
I don't think this this is a great conspiracy but if the Tin says free then it should be free.
For example on the newsstand today the image below shows 4 free magazines but only one of them is actually Free.
Surely the answer is simple keep the Free stuff and the paid stuff separate, you will then have a lot less complaints from your users and more people will trust and use the Apple Newsstand...Which I still think is an amazing product.
Come on Apple, you know it makes sense.
