It looks like Wolfram Alpha’s computational knowledge engine, which churns out the complicated data to the common user in understandably presentable way, somehow couldn’t get the iPhone app market’s pulse. From the day the Wolfram Alpha iPhone app released and till today it’s the case, even after the vocal outcry on its price ($50) from the iPhone community. When the app got released, it kept the mobile website, which is optimized for iPhone, available for free to the users. So iPhone users were very happy to use it for free instead of burning a hole in their pocket to purchase the Wolfram Alpha’s native app.
Two days before, the “computational knowledge engine’s” team shut down it’s iPhone-friendly mobile website and put up a pop-up to entice the users to buy the still ridiculously priced app when you browse their site on iPhone. Already this has been worst tactics, anyway that will never work out, the Wolfram’s product manager for the iPhone app, Schoeller Porter, mentioned the reason for killing the mobile site was “not enough people were using it.” If that’s the case, he better remove the app from the app store, as many people do also not use it.
The Wolfram Alpha team understands it very clear. Because of the free webapp people are not buying it’s iPhone app. But, what they didn’t understand is, it’s the price that’s driving people to it’s iPhone-formatted website from it’s paid-app. Somehow the marketing team cleverly (?) came up with a plan, shut down the free website version and people will definitely will buy it. If that’s the plan, I am sure, it won’t work out.
Even after the wide spread negative publicity on the price of the app, Wolfram Alpha is so adamant on it’s egoistic pricing of the app and still keeps it for $50. That’s sadly funny!
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