Please stop griping. It’s embarassing. £35 for an app that can do so much? This is not a game, it’s a serious app for serious musicians.
I would hazard a guess that the reason for the in app purchasing is fairly straightforward and makes sense from a business perspective.
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Steinberg is unlikely to have recouped initial development costs to date from the relatively small number of users that have purchased the app in comparison to their other products ie. cubase.
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In order to recoup those costs and therfore make the app a viable product from a business (not user) perspective, they need to start recovering some of that outlay as devlopers have to get paid otherwise they shut the department down and they are out of a job.
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The easiest way to do this is to provide an in-app store which serves two purposes…
A. We get some new toys to play with sooner than anticipated
B. They get instant revenue sooner than expected which helps fund further development
From the attitude of some of the users on here, I would HATE to be a developer nowadays. Consumers have gone mad and seem to be oblivious of how they behave as long as they get what they want. Please think about this before coming on here and acting the way you do… It’s depressing and not the way a real musician should behave.
These guys are doing a brilliant job so give them some credit for that.
Time to raise your game people.