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Originally Posted by Toadling
However, Apple recently enabled in-app purchasing for free apps in the iTunes App Store. What this means is that developers now have the option to offer a free version of their app with limited functionality, along with a built-in mechanism for later upgrading to the full version, all done from within the app itself.
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This is a really nice tool that Apple's made available; it works great for new products added to the store from here on out. The last time I talked to a developer about it, though, it wasn't clear how to add the free trial and let
existing OmniFocus customers bypass the in-app purchase.
If the App Store doesn't have a way to say "folks that already bought OmniFocus don't need to do the in-app purchase" this won't work, in other words. (Having two versions of OmniFocus on the App Store works around this but causes other problems.)
We'd love to give folks a way to trial OmniFocus, though, and this shows that Apple is adding stuff to the App Store to make developers' lives easier. We don't know exactly what we'll end up doing, but we remain hopeful. :-)