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Have you seen the article about the game that was initially launched at 99c and then progressively increased to $350? It's really the best example I've seen about how bad the pricing in the AppStore has really become.

I'm not sure that this is the original source, but its Google's first result: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/27628/GDC_Refenes__Saltsm...

I saw that too but I think that the reason that guy got kicked off the app store was for getting a lot of chargebacks. I think the people buying the app were confused as to the actual price because it's hardly the case that a game would cost $350 maybe $3.50. When most of the purchasers were all confused it hardly seems fair to extrapolate a unified theory about how bad the app store pricing is. But that is just my interpretation of the article.

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