Dixie, congratulations on your success! That is inspiring!
=D On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 1:19 PM, John Dixon <dixo...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:11:41 -0700 > > From: ambassa...@fourthworld.com > > To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Subject: Re: Reviews on the iTunes store... > > > > John Dixon wrote: > > > > > I have some apps in the iTunes store... lately, well this weekend one > > of them, 'TickerTape' started to get some reviews posted on its page... > > > I was talking to a friend earlier today who lives in America ( I live > > > in England, that funny little island north of mainland europe.) and > > > he told me that he cannot see the reviews... > > > > > > Anyone know how this works ?... When I submitted the apps I set them > > > to be sold in all the stores.. Does anyone know how to get the > > > reviews seen in the different markets ? > > > > Just be glad you've had any reviews at all. That puts you in a highly > > desirable minority, since it turns out that some 60% of apps in Apple's > > app store have never been downloaded at all: > > > > > > App Store has growing population of never-downloaded "zombie apps" > > < > http://www.tuaw.com/2012/08/06/app-store-growing-populated-with-never-downloaded-zombie-apps/ > > > > Then it seems that I have had a little luck with the three apps that I > have had in the iTunes store... there are three there at the moment all of > which were written for different reasons. I never expected that any of the > apps would make any money... perhaps they would sell a few units and that > would be it...But since they were accepted by Apple I thought that I would > try and promote them so that they would not join the '60%' and be complete > failures, well, as far as sales were concerned anyway. > > I emailed every magazine, newspaper, iphone app review site I could either > think of or find, but did not get a reply from any of them.. I laugh... > even with the promise of 'promo' codes...:-) Of the three apps I had > actually thought that 'Skribble' would be the app that would sell better > than the other two but this has not been the case... > > Since the first app was put on the iTunes store in May... daily sales of > all three have teetered between 0 and 6, I smile Thursday and Friday seem > to be the best days... and there can and are days without any sales at > all... > > Tickertape 1.0 > > This little ditty was put together to see what could actually be done in > liveCode as far as orientation of the screen was concerned. I wanted to be > able to change what was being displayed on screen as the orientation of the > device was changed rather than having to ‘touch’ or ‘swipe’ to get content > to change... > http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tickertape/id529490215?ls=1&mt=8 > > Skribble 1.0 > > ‘Skribble’ is an offshoot of something else that I have been working on, > getting liveCode to recognize letters as they are written on the screen, > but once I had colour working, I got sidetracked and ‘Skribble’ was the > result. I had always wanted to call this little app 'Scribble', but > unfortunately the name had already been taken... I laugh now, but it took > me two weeks to come up with the idea of substituting the 'c' for a 'k' in > the name...:-) > > http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/skribble/id532445290?mt=8 > > MoneyXchange 1.0 > I put this together when runRev first introduced iOS mobile... It wouldn't > run well at first as scrolling through the list of the currencies, 94 > groups to scroll that consist of a flag image and two fields to a group, > proved to be very jerky... the accelerated rendering, however sorted all > the scrolling problems.. Then I had a problem with the name of the app... I > had submitted it with the name of 'Filthy Lucre', but the name was rejected > by Apple as they deemed such a name was likely to cause offence.. so, it > has ended up with the very unimaginative name of 'moneyXchange'...:-( > > http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/moneyxchange/id533308066?mt=8 > > Why am I telling you all this ?... Well, last Friday night I was drinking > beer in my local pub when a friend walked in the door recently arrived back > from London... he started to tell me that 'Your little stupid app that > displays messages on the screen... I have seen them using it in the Olympic > stadium'.... I smiled at him and took no further notice... This is I guess > the punchline... Yesterday morning I had a look at my app sales in iTunes > connect... sales of 'Tickertape' have gone from 1 or 2 a day to the > hundreds... in fact todays figures show sales of 558.... > > It just goes to show though, it is not advertising that has helped me > here, it can only have been 'word of mouth' of people in and around London, > as I do note that all the sales over the past couple of days have been in > the UK... funny old world. > > Dixie > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- http://www.andregarzia.com -- All We Do Is Code. http://fon.nu -- minimalist url shortening service. _______________________________________________ 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
