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I can't believe I just bought a 3-day-old app for $8.

Sigh.

Looks great from the screenshots and forum posts, and I've been meaning to dive into component-level electronics for a while. I've tried to do so in the past and never seem to have the time and inclination while I'm near my workbench. Here's hoping this will let me learn enough to be able to "graduate" to the next level, and actually create some useful things at the bench instead of just trying to learn there.

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Imagine driving to a computer store in the late 70s or 80s, and buying a floppy disk in a stapled plastic sandwich baggie with some Xeroxed documentation stapled to it for $20. In 1980 dollars.

I was pretty happy to buy this app this morning for $8 2022 dollars - the current price of an ice cream cone.

I got in on the tail end of that in the 90s. I vividly remember buying "old" computers at church bazaars and rummage sales, then begging my parents for money to buy dusty old games on 5.25" floppy at my local Radio Shack.

I buy hard drives at thrift stores and run recovery on them for S&G’s. Amazing archeological finds….

I was at the thrift store last night and found someones cache of complete old sim games for PC. Sim Coaster, Sim city, etc. all for $1.99. I realized - I don't have a CD drive anymore.

External USB ones work well enough in a pinch.

Oh! You mean Ham Radio Outlet ?! :-)

You're paying way too much for ice cream. Who's your ice cream guy?

It's $6 for a single scoop plus $2 for a waffle cone at Salt & Straw, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Hey that's me you're talking about . . . and then I found out people would pay me to write programs. :-)

I would be massively happy to spend $8 dollars on an app. 99/100 the app is what I want but it's free with massive ads and/or some kind subscription/micro transaction model.

Subscriptions have gone completely off the deep end. This app[1] is a perfect example of how crazy they can get. It's an app that is completed as far as I can tell and I don't know what more features you could add to it. It's not like blackjack changes. They charge a $1.29/month or $12.99/year subscription. I'd happily pay $10 or even $15 for it but there's no way in hell I'm subscribing to a finished app.

[1]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wftllc.bla...

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