Exposure: two billion photos, in your pocket

Tom, if charging a paltry $10 is unreasonable, and offering a free ad-supported version is deplorable at best, what kind of business model would you like to see these developers employing?

Perhaps they could code out on the sidewalk, with their laptop cases open for passers-by to drop change into?

I wonder if Alien Skin will care that another App is named "Exposure". maybe Connected Flow can get away with it since theirs is for the Iphone and not a computer? I can't believe they haven't heard of Alien Skin Exposure?

Or you could install the completely free and ad free Mobile Flickr available for a couple of months now.

Add this source to Installer on your jailbroken iPhone:
http://xk72.com/iphone/repos/

Lots of features. More so than Exposure except for the location thing which I'm sure it's great for some people but completely useless to me (just me).

Regarding developers charging for seemingly simple apps (and I do mean seemingly), have a read here and see what you think:

http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/481/it-should-be-free
http://codesorcery.net/2008/03/31/the-price-of-free
http://codesorcery.net/2007/12/27/bait-and-switch-no-its-called-software-development

Ads from The Deck are pretty classy and not that annoying, at least on websites. I'm guessing their real business model is ad-supported and they aren't expecting too many people to buy the premium version.

To answer a couple quick points:

1) I'll pay for Exposure because it's awesome software that provides features I want, and its developer spent a lot of time on it. Code doesn't write itself.

2) The [REDACTED] stuff is sort of a joke among developers writing iPhone apps, since as I understand it, all this stuff is technically under NDA until the App Store officially launches. On Twitter you'll see developers joke around with posts like "Work on [REDACTED] is going well, but yatta yatta..." as kind of a nod to the fact that most people can put 2 + 2 together to figure out what they're working on, but they can't officially speak about it yet.

I have no idea what REDACTED is, but according to Wikipedia, redact may refer to

- Redaction, a form of editing in which multiple sources are combined and subjected to minor alteration to create a definitive and coherent work
- Sanitization (classified information), the process of removing sensitive information

Seems like both interpretations fit.

Ah, quit yer whinin'. It's a bargain at twice the price!

whats with the crazy REDACTED image?

Why would users pay $20 for Flickr Export, also made by Connected Flow? You can upload your photos to Flickr for free, yet lots of people still buy this app. I did, because it's better than Flickr's own solutions. Maybe this will be better too.