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iPhone Atlas: Wolfram Alpha iPhone app is cool but overpriced
Download Squad: Wolfram Alpha for iPhone packs big features and a big $50 pricetag
TheAppleBlog: WolframAlpha iPhone: Why the $50 Asking Price?
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WolframAlpha App launches at 50 USD, I hope they sell a bundle! too rich for me, http://bit.ly/4Crsob, iTunes link: http://bit.ly/3KWI3M 23 days ago |
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WolframAlpha comes to the iPhone, but at £29.99?! http://bit.ly/4eDAa8 25 days ago |
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It's official: I just spent $50 on an iPhone app. http://bit.ly/4eDAa8 27 days ago |
Wolfram Alpha iPhone app is cool but overpriced
iPhone Atlas —
... (iTunes store link) got approved by Apple surprisingly quickly, I was told in a breathless e-mail from Wolfram PR on Sunday. But the real surprise was the price: The app is $49.95. ...
Wolfram Alpha for iPhone packs big features and a big $50 pricetag
Download Squad —
Filed under: Productivity, iPhone, SearchWhen Wolfram Alpha, the (don't call it a search engine!) computation knowledge engine, announced an iPhone app, I assumed it would just be a nice front end for the website. I also figured it would be free. Surprise! The Wolfram Alpha app does a lot more than expected, and it also carries a hefty $50 price tag. This might not be the smartest business decision for Wolfram, considering that App Store reviewers are notorious for complaining that even $10 is too much to pay for any iPhone app.
On the other hand, the app does the kind of high-level math that would make Texas ...
WolframAlpha iPhone: Why the $50 Asking Price?
TheAppleBlog —
WolframAlpha Web App
When it was first released, WolframAlpha generated a lot of buzz surrounding the impressive computational power the new search engine-type service offered. Specifically for mathematical and statistical queries, it goes quite beyond what Google is able to offer. But does all that power justify a $50 price tag on ...
This Week's 10 Best iPhone Apps [IPhone Apps]
Gizmodo —
... dates to platform availability to screenshots to reviews. It's a field guide for games, essentially—a type of tool which lends itself well to the iPhone. Pet Semetary: A gored-up mobile take on Stephen King's eponymous book and film, Pet Sematary is proudly straightforward: You shoot zombies; the zombies are often cats. It's a slow-build game, with short stages that get progressively harder, and accordingly, it's great timekiller. A dollar. Wolfram Alpha: For this week's obnoxiously contrarian pick, how about a calculator app that ...
The Price Is Wrong: 13 Overpriced iPhone Apps
Wired: Gadget Lab —
We love apps on the iPhone. Lurve them. They are capable of keeping track of your budget, translating foreign languages and even delivering ample doses of cow bell. But we can’t give every app out there a ringing endorsement. There are more than a few stinkers that don’t work as promised, are endlessly confusing or are horrifically expensive. The latter group is what we’ve got in our crosshairs today.
These are the top 10 overpriced iPhone apps we’ve encountered. While some are fairly useful (Wolfram Alpha, we’re looking at you) others make about as much sense as a Faberge hackey sack. (A special thanks to ...
