By David Steele Overholt (January 25, 2009) (Question 1)

I’ll be honest – I don’t regularly purchase software.  Yes, I download it for free from online every chance I get.  Since I got my iPhone, though, I have been tempted on many occassions, 3 in the last week, to purchase small applications – for convenience or simply out of curiosity.  Apple’s decision to make a closed AppStore (yes, I could always jailbreak my phone, but I haven’t…) and their allowance of software developers to price their own applications (usually very reasonable, under $5 or $10) with a one-click system has done its job at persuading me to purchase software I almost certainly would not have before its invention.

Touche, Apple.