We’ve been (slowly) moving our applications over to Ruby 1.9.2 and Rails 3 over the past few months; we also now run Passenger 3 by default. This has been a pleasant switch for development, less so for deployment: even Phusion itself recommended running separate instances per gemset. I knew there had to a be a better way, can’t wait to try.
http://dalibornasevic.com/posts/21-rvm-and-passenger-setup-for-rails-2-and-rails-3-apps
ppk has posted an interesting analysis of the current state of the market.
While I agree with his thesis, I think things may change. The point is that mobile apps live in a different space than “regular” apps: with the average app costing less than a glossy magazine, it comes down to impulse buying.
Even discounting apps I buy for work-related research, I usually go through a 25€ Apple App Store card in a matter of weeks, and I don’t think that’s unreasonable at all.
I didn’t know Google allows refunds; I found that funny. When I buy a coffee I don’t get a refund, even if the coffee is bad; why should I expect that of something that costs a fraction of a mochaccino?
