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The topic of discussion is a change in the way Handango determines the best selling software. Instead of counting the number of copies sold, they have just converted to counting the most revenue produced by the sales. As a result there is a large bias towards the higher priced software, especially when it's not discounted.
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Something I've been hearing a lot about in the developer community, but which hasn't really been made to the mainstream public news yet, is that many European developers that use US-based ESD sites like Palmgear, Handango, and others.. are now forced to raise the prices they charge for their software by
significant amounts (nearly double), because the USD is doing so poorly on the world market now.
Since these sites pay the developers in USD, which gets converted at the developer's local exchange rate, in order to continue to make the same amount for the sale of their software, they have to raise what they charge
for everyone.
The USD is really taking a beating on the world market, overall. I surely hope this doesn't continue.