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by PierreA 14y ago
it's 75% after 1M euros (before it is 45% maximum). and I believe there is a lot of ways to prevent from paying this (eg if you do an investment in french island)
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by PierreA 14y ago
text to speech engines do not work like this. They built the pronunciations of any words on the fly using their phonetic sound library. so 90M is for the sound library I think
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by PierreA 14y ago
thanks ! I have to check SEO more precisely, I'm really not an expert..but you understand that losing #1 on "spelling" had a great impact
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by PierreA 14y ago
word wizard app has not the Montessori keyword and it works pretty well !
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by PierreA 14y ago
of course I'm glad to offer advices. Send me mail - my address on my site lescapadou.com
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by PierreA 14y ago
don't worry Montessori is used extensively in the App Store since 2 years. On my side, I've got a friend who is montessori teacher, and he test all my apps and give me feedback. There is a lot of discussion in the Montessori world about the
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by PierreA 14y ago
Ironic that I get more money than an educator ? Yes it is in a way. But it is the world we are living, no ? (and we should not start to talk about bankers) On the other hand, there is no comparison between a software developer and a educa
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by PierreA 14y ago
When I began doing apps, I was inspired and motivated by such posts. They gave me the motivation to try and do it. So I thought I could give back. I did the same post last year, and I'm sure I have new competitors because of this post but t
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by PierreA 14y ago
that's a good point, and I will add this in the report. I work at home so my expense are only a little bit of marketing, some devices and I've made a trip to a conference this year in california, and a very important thing is that I have to
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by PierreA 14y ago
don't believe everything that is written in the newspapers, it's only for the super-rich :-) I think that France is a good place for authors (Ireland is the best one I think) Indeed there is a specific status for authors in France and tax r
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by PierreA 14y ago
don't believe everything that is written in the newspapers, it's only for the super-rich :-) I think that France is one of the best place for authors (Ireland is the best one I think) Indeed there is a specific status for authors in France
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by PierreA 14y ago
happy to know that! Yes that's a long road and the experience you gain help you to know what you have to do . You can be more or less lucky (I was pretty lucky with the education market) but most of all you have to be persistant and learn f
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by PierreA 14y ago
and actually for the Word Wizard app, I can't release a single app with all languages because it uses a text to speech engine and each voice is 90M ! In addition, due to the contract I have with the text to speech company, I can't release a
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by PierreA 14y ago
another point for localization : I can sell an app at a higher price in France (tier 4) because of the euros rate. tier 4 in france is a little bit like tier 3 in the US (eg 3$ in the US and 3.5 euros in France - it was 3 euros before Apple
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by PierreA 14y ago
please change the title of this post - this is not the subject - and this post contains information that may be helpful for others iOS devs
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My Sales and Experience in the iOS Education Market(blog.lescapadou.com)
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by PierreA 14y ago
I remember that the original idea was to create white/yellow page online (it was very costly to print all these white pages). Then came commercial services. You were billed according to the number you dialed (from free -3613- to very expens
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by PierreA 15y ago
Let's say that for me it was profitable last January and I began to work on iOS in March 2010. Of course it really depends on what you need. You can check the figures in the post to see details.
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by PierreA 15y ago
PRmac.com (you have to do it if you've got an app and it's cheap) and 3 times I used prweb.com which is much more expensive (and there is a lot of discussion to know if it is profitable but it is more professional). For the ads I went to th
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by PierreA 15y ago
what do you mean exactly ? I just wanted to say that it was an investment because I did not work as a contractor or employee while creating apps. But in a sense, I could estimate the cost because for the first 8 months I was not profitable
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by PierreA 15y ago
actualy, it was great way to be motivated ! I always look for ways to do things with my kids that they love and I love, and I also thought it was a great way to show them what is "working"
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by PierreA 15y ago
I just worked hard (and time is money!) + some money for hardware and some Press Release and ads (about $2500 I think). I've done everything myself so far. I will add this to the post, thanks the comment
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by PierreA 15y ago
I just sent them a code to review the app as I did with a lot of blogs or children's technology specialist
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by PierreA 15y ago
Journalist in big blog or newspaper cannot be reached directly (I think they should receive hundred of mails everyday!). So you need to have a nice app and make some noise and perhaps they will hear about it. I was very lucky for my first a
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by PierreA 15y ago
decx, if you want to check others voice (you can do it online) you can mail me at pierre@lescapadou.com. Thanks I really love to make it better for UK people. This is small market compared to the US but as you can see in my post, small mark
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by PierreA 15y ago
I really don't know. The issue is for people to find your site - so it is SEO. In addition, I've never found very good data about how people find apps (I've seen some generic data but of course I'm looking for data about parents looking for
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by PierreA 15y ago
it's something I have to look seriously but unfortunately my time is limited. I wanted to do this myself but a framework could be interesting. I imagine also there are some opportunities for cross-marketing.
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by PierreA 15y ago
yes once you reach a threshold it's more easy to get motivated :-) But this is the start that is the most difficult, of course
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by PierreA 15y ago
please check the post. But actually everything is good to promote your app, you have to try and see the result. The difficulty in promotion is that most of the times difficult to evaluate to ROI and it is a kind of weird thing for software
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by PierreA 15y ago
go back to work as an employee or contractor !

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