Wolfram Alpha temporarily lowers overpriced iPhone app [Follow up 2]

The Wolfram Alpha “intelligent search engine” that we mentioned here and here is back in the headlines today. The cause for concern, or in this case interest, is that Wolfram Alpha has decided to lower the price on their iPhone app for the holiday season. Starting today and running through the end of the year, Wolfram Alpha will now be on sale for $19.99 — much more reasonable than the previous $49.99 dragging behind the app like a lead weight.

Like many of you, I would assume that at $50 and a rather niche market, Wolfram Alpha hasn’t sold massive numbers of the app. In fact, I’d even go to say that they haven’t even made that much money on it. Sadly we’ll never know until Wolfram Alpha releases sales figures — which they’ve declined. Such is a sign that when described in plain english equate to suck, terrible, total loss, etc. Of course Wolfram goes on to say that sales of the app are “robust” and that they have “beaten our expectations solidly”. Right. Prove us wrong Wolfram or at least put our curiousness to ease. Willing to be a little more transparent with your actual sales? Or are you still in denial that $50 for a search engine is reasonable?

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