On Sunday night, I was watching (some of) the closing ceremony show for
the London Paralympics on Channel 4. After the end of the ceremony
itself, they did a quick review, and showed some highlights. It included
a series of brief clips; one of them showed an athlete (or maybe a
volunteer - not sure) holding an iPhone towards the camera, while
"THANKS" scrolled across the screen in large red letters. Looked good !
I hope this was your app - and if it was, I'd suggest you look for the
clip and include it in your advertising :-)
(somewhere around 11:15 - 11:20 on Channel 4 - hopefully they have a
4Player or similar to let you watch recent tv shows.)
-- Alex.
On 14/08/2012 17:19, John Dixon 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
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