Free market
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“Where the law was made, cheating was made” is one of the oldest sayings of mankind. Although really the concept behind this app for Windows Phone 8, it really is an unexpected use of Windows Store features.
So, with Free Market I can find a lower-priced or free version of paid applications that are published.
A creative use of the platform
When I enter the app, the first thing that shows me is a list with the most “hot” applications. A list that I suppose will be the most searched or the ones that can be found at a better price, but I'm not sure what the ordering criteria is.
If I click on any of the icons, a search is launched for all the countries where this application has been published, looking for differences or one where a free version has been published.
And this is the trick, the Windows Phone Store allows developers to put a different price for each country of publication. Having, in some cases, differences as big as that it is free on one site and paid on another.
In the case that I have located the application with a better price in the store of a given country, the next step is not very easy either. I must change the region of my mobile, so that it can search for me in the appropriate store and download the cheapest version.
But, and it has everything, the actual utility of the application is rather meager Since most of the applications I've tested during the analysis, they have the same price wherever they are sold.And, in my opinion, my time is worth much more than the euro I'm going to save.
Free marketVersion 1.0.3.101
- Developer: AlGihuni
- Download it at: Windows Phone Store
- Price: Free
- Category: productivity
