Rounded price.
If they are so much for community people why do use this low level marketing of x.90 or x.99 ?!
They are transparent with us , right ? Why do use this ?
No one is sensible to this marketing approach ?
I would like to subscribe but this leave to me some perplexity.
I don’t undestand what you are saying? Transparent? This is voluntary, right? So you give an amount if you want to. Kind of like patreon, to support development of the OS.
What transparency do you want? Do you feel that not just having integer numbers is a sneaky and malicious thing? I agree that floating point is the work of the devil, but I don’t think there is any malicious intent here.
I’ll use your same tone.
You understood clearly , so why do you ask?
If you have to use psychological techniques even with the ones have to support you , you are not totally transparent with them.
Is what I feel or what it is ?
This is a contradiction .
This contradiction born from the fact that we are used to this practice EVERY DAMN DAY EVERYWHERE. Because the “devil” marketing rules say so.
This community and this project should be different from all the rest or is always the same stuff with just an other vest? If is different SHOULD act different. (even in stuffs that you consider small like this one) .
This is simple communication between people and I’m sure you would like to have the maximum possible honesty too.
Take it easy. It’s not the end of the world (at least not because that 
). It’s indeed an interesting point, but note that the end price is affected by taxes.
commerce.jolla.com uses shopify, I wonder if that aren’t default values. In any case, because of taxes it’s difficult to have rounded value in each country.
I don’t think thats the same tone
As you say, we are used to those manipulation techniques.
I didn’t even notice it.
Imho, your question is not out of interest, worth to be asked.
Indeed, details count.
Perhaps they thought that it could help to get some new users, knowing the community trust them beyond some numbers?
And there are no cat pictures…
The point seem to me 99.99% pointless. Reply now to get a special answer tailored right to your individual needs.
Why?
Jolla is a private company and we are consumers here voting with our wallet.
Sfos is different from the competitors in most cases but it exists to directly or indirectly profit Jolla, not for charity or as a revolution.
Also seriously man, I don’t mean to be rude but don’t you think this is insanely overreacting for something so insignificant?
Unfortunately yes. Everydamnwhere . We are surrounded really.
I know that came difficult to keep ayes on those stuffs . When they came habits they fall off our scope. This is the real win for who use those strategies , because they work and we do not even notice them.
Yes. Would be very appreciated an answer without imaginative excuses.
Could be the case.
But , to use the weakness of our perceptions to make profit is not a good practice , ever.
I pre-ordered one phone and me too I suspect this practice is used as you say , but still is not good.
Kanthal , you are not absolutely rude , still civil , are you simply expressing that you do not see what other see as not insignificant . You are guessing that i can be over reacting (insanely). And is a possibility. Or maybe there is a possibility that we all are so much accustomed to those practice that we even do not see them anymore. Or that by now we silently accept them. But if Jolla use them it know them really well.
Did you read the above link ? Companies are forced to have such clever communication ? Forcefully ? Really ?
Do you trust who use your weakness to obtain something from you ?
From what I can see from afar , Jolla pone it self in a way where people that are tired to be tricked by the big companies (for which the first imperative is only profit) , can finally find transparency in the exchange (in this case money for phone and OS).
Do we trust all inside the SfOS ? Is totally clean? https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf
Boh , but yes we jumped in and we trust it.
So why do use those commercial techniques that have at the base the same attitudes of all the bad company from which we are try to escape ?
As Ric say , is a detail , and also details count. (wise expression)
This argument is delicate. Not all the companies must act as the worst companies around. Not all the consumers must consume blindly as is per usual. Maybe I’m wrong , but is Jolla an alternative to the other companies or a simple substitute ? By how it act put this company in one side or the other.