Hi Ryan,
rhearty wrote:
1. This can be alleviated but deeplinking between your two products (unsure why you'd deeplink from Paid to Trial, but the options are there for you to implement how you see fit). Users running the Trial get a nag upon launch that when clicked deeplinks them right to the Paid version in App World. No need to search, or go looking for the Paid version of a Product they might really like and want to pay for.
I wasn't referring to links from the apps into App World, but from the paid version to the trial WITHIN App World. If a user finds the paid version, finding the trial is non-trivial.
rhearty wrote:
2. Agreed - no longer do we have Paid apps advertising that a Free Trial is available. This is something we need to look into as we move forward. An example I'm thinking of on this early Saturday morning is allowing Vendors to use a flag on their Paid versions and link that to a Free version within the Vendor Portal. This creates a link and changes the visual behavior of the app on the store (adds the "+Free Trial" and a button to acquire it). Again, just thinking out loud but I fully agree with you here.
This would be very welcome.
rhearty wrote:
3. Correct, in most cases the masses will flock to the Free version so mathmatically you'll acquire more less-than-positive reviews on the Free version. The other way of looking at it is your Paid version (and it's good reviews) won't be dragged down by users reviewing the Free Trial under the same SKU. I see a case for both approaches here (ie. Not all bad one way, and all good the other way).
It's too soon to make any assumptions of course, but the first 3 reviews seem to support my case. The trail version has 2.5 stars, while the paid version has 4.5 stars in almost 300 reviews. Time will tell.
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