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Apple's App Store is the Dollar Store of mobile applications. Is there room for a Neiman Marcus?

Apple’s App Store has become something of a Moroccan bazaar, an overwhelming place where tens of thousands of products are offered at a range of price points, from free (OK, so the bazaar analogy isn’t perfect) to $100. The shelves are especially crammed with sub-$2 apps, though, which lean heavily toward the kind of novelty junk consumers use for a few days and then forget about. A new Yankee Group study predicts prices for premium mobile [...]