On 4/25/12 6:45 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
See, Apple wasn't quite as bad as you were expecting :-)
Yeah. You hear so much here: problems with software setup, problems with provisioning, problems with rejection, problems with Apple's picky rules. It's pretty intimidating. It was difficult, or maybe it was just scary, but I have a client with aspirations and I needed to know how it worked. I think after you've done it once, the worst is over.
Andre: I don't know how the App Store sales will go, but since I went into this knowing I wouldn't retire on the income, I don't mind saying how the Android sales are doing. I sold 10 copies of Casey at the Google Play Store immediately after I posted the announcement. A week or two later I sold one more. And that's that. It hasn't budged since. On Amazon I sold a handful right at first, and then it's been maybe one or two a week or so. Amazon says I've sold 30 so far.
Google gives you nice statistics: totals, several kinds of graphs, what types of devices are running the app, how many copies were installed in total and how many are still active, how that compares with other apps, and lots of other stuff. You can download a spreadsheet if you want. Amazon reporting is terrible. You can get a little line graph of sales over time and the total number of sales and that's about it. Google gives you payout dates and cash totals, Amazon doesn't say a word about that, and I have no idea when I will get paid. They sent me 8 dollars a while ago though.
If you look at the percentages, Amazon is way ahead. If you look at my totals, well, don't look at the totals. But I mostly did it to learn how, and that was worth a lot. I knew going in that a solitaire game wasn't going to be the next Angry Birds, even though both do involve some kind of bird crap.
I might have made more sales if I'd called the game "Poopy Cards". -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode