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by shimfish 14y ago
This mistake started when Steve Jobs returned to Apple. And now they have $80 billion dollars in the bank.
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by shimfish 14y ago
The article mentions that apps are included also.
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by shimfish 14y ago
As an indie dev, I'm way more worried by this development: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/personal/2012/12/05/new-a... If everyone moves to this subscription model, the indies won't even be invited to the party.
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by shimfish 14y ago
Maybe someone here can patent the act of making trivial, over-reaching patents and put a stop to all this?
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by shimfish 14y ago
Reminds of the insane story of how the Manhattan project nearly nuked itself when one of the scientists screwdriver slipped during testing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#Criticality_accide... Fascinating book about the develop
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by shimfish 14y ago
Somewhat related to this is how staggeringly awful the Google Play search is. My app is called "My PlayHome" (the wisdom of that branding decision is another matter). Let's see what happens if a potential buyer (quite reasonably), adds an e
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by shimfish 14y ago
I was looking out for the Teal/Orange effect and was interested to see that it started in posters way back in the 80s already, 20 years before digital film color grading.
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by shimfish 14y ago
To save you the trouble, it's a stream of content free fanboyism and witless photoshoppery. Every single comment would be downvoted to oblivion if it were posted here.
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by shimfish 14y ago
The other big problem is that Apple provide zero analytics. I have no idea how people find my app. Apple don't tell you what searches people used so it's impossible to optimize or effectively test keywords. Plus you can only change your ke
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by shimfish 14y ago
Have you done any usability testing with little kids? I'm intrigued to know if they'll be able to instinctively navigate through the options. Also, isn't using the hardware back button is going to end up with countless accidental app exits?
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by shimfish 14y ago
The app is aimed at children from 2 to 8. I'm not going to advertise at children.
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by shimfish 14y ago
Sorry. I fluffed the last line. I've removed the word 'apart' to make it closer to what I meant to say...
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by shimfish 14y ago
The most I've sold on Google Play was 8 in one day. This was sufficient to make it rank around 200 in the Entertainment category.
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by shimfish 14y ago
The app is on Google Play also. It sells more on the Amazon store.
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by shimfish 14y ago
Not exactly. The conclusion was based on the fact that selling 50 copies in 1 day meant it ranked 120 in all paid apps on the Amazon store.
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by shimfish 14y ago
I've just added it to the Nook store though I had to do this via a friend as they don't accept non-US developers.
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by shimfish 14y ago
It's on Google Play also. It sells even less on that than the Amazon store.
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by shimfish 14y ago
I am increasingly surprised that anyone bothers to make Android apps. I have a successful kids app on iOS that I recently ported to Android. The Android version made 5% of what the iOS version made last month. If rankings are anything to go
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by shimfish 15y ago
Phase 1: Scan underpants Phase 2: ???? Phase 3: Profit!
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Another reason for devs to avoid Android(retrodreamer.com)
4 points by shimfish 15y ago|0 comments
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by shimfish 15y ago
I had a company that was ready to give me a job make me take a PHP test on http://www.123assess.com After the 10th question asking me to debug 30 lines of obfuscated code in my head while a 3 minute countdown ticked away, I called it a da
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by shimfish 15y ago
If you register your IP with AOL, they send you individual notices when each user marks your mail as spam. http://postmaster.aol.com/Postmaster.FeedbackLoop.php
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by shimfish 15y ago
No. I'm saying the Games/Educational category is very small and takes very few sales to be in the top 100 and almost nothing to be in the top 400. What I'm really saying (in my other comment) is that this was a wholly unremarkable app wit
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by shimfish 15y ago
A lot of nonsense here. They claim to have been "featured by Apple". This was most probably just in the "What's Hot" section buried under 5 levels of clicks on the iTunes desktop app. The rankings they claim are actually pitifully small. Se
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by shimfish 15y ago
Ha. That basically means they are selling nothing. You can get into the top 100 iPhone Games/Educational section with about 20 downloads in a day. But these are their peak figures. Their boast about being in the top 400 for 2/3 of the time
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by shimfish 15y ago
Any idea if this works with more than one finger at a time?
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by shimfish 15y ago
I don't see how this was even a dilemma to Microsoft. The market for what is essentially a digital scrap book could have in no way justified it. Seriously, what percentage of the population would actually benefit from this functionality? Co
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by shimfish 15y ago
I zoomed out to the normal satellite view. I could then only get street view on the roads and not the shop.
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by shimfish 15y ago
Is this an Easter Egg? When I zoomed out I couldn't find a way to get back in.
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by shimfish 15y ago
Did you notice if any adverts affected your sales? I'm starting to think about advertising but am doubtful if any sites are really worth it.

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