Why Your ‘I Don’t Pay for Apps’ Mentality Makes No Sense

George Tinari
Adventures in Consumer Technology
4 min readFeb 7, 2020

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If I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say “I don’t pay for apps” I’d have enough money to pay for all the apps in the App Store.

I have this theory that people are unknowingly poisoned by the pre-iPhone days. Cell phone carriers were crazy annoying from around 2004–2007. Every little thing you did on your basic flip phone ended up costing money. And you’d…

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George Tinari
Adventures in Consumer Technology

Usually writing about Apple, but I get bursts of passion elsewhere too. Seen on MakeUseOf, Engadget, Cult of Mac, Guiding Tech, and others.