Browsing Archive: June, 2009
My download totals from iTunes are in for my app's first week. Lexify Lite: 453 downloads Lexify: 22 downloads Of Lexify's 22 downloads, here's the country breakdown: 17 USA 1 Great Britain 1 Australia 1 New Zealand 1 Mexico 1 Sweden Nothing spectacular, but at least it's selling. Also, things have definitely slowed down after the first two or three days. I've started to rework the Lite version a little to include more words and ads but remove the save and view tabs. The Lite version seems to be the be... Continue reading ...
So I lowered the price for Lexify yesterday morning after I saw that only about 1-2% of the total Lexify downloads from the App Store were paid versions. It looks like this was a good choice. After the price change there were 87 free downloads and 7 paid ones, or about 8% of the total. This is in the 5-10% range that I would have hoped for. Since 7 purchases at $2.10 (after Apple's cut) = $14.70 and the previous day's 3 purchases at $3.50 (also after Apple's cut) = $10.50, the lower price is ... Continue reading ...
There were 200 downloads of Lexify Lite from 32 different countries yesterday but only three downloads of the full version. About half of the downloads were from the US. I had no idea that iPhones were so popular internationally! However, this means only 1.5% of the Lite users are buying Lexify. I think my initial price of $4.99 was too much to ask for people that are used to spending $1 on their apps. I decided to change the price to $2.99 and change the primary category from Education to P... Continue reading ...
Lexify (Lite version) got its first iTunes review from someone I don't know. fatkid311 says "Interesting app my friend. What can I look forward to next?" and gave it 5 stars. Thanks fatkid311! So what is next? I have a list of possible ideas for apps. There are two in particular that I'm looking into right now: My favorite idea at the moment is an app for making phone calls and reading text to the person being called. I think it'd be especially fun to use for prank phone calls. I'd really like ... Continue reading ...
Yesterday afternoon the free version of Lexify was approved for the App Store. Like the full version, it took nine days. The only difference with the Lite version is that it only has a fraction of the Latin roots that the full version has. But since the functionality is exactly the same, I guess it makes sense that it would take the same amount of time for Apple to review it. Oh, and Lexify Lite had 43 downloads (39 from the US store, 4 from Canada) on its first evening in the App Store. Cool! Continue reading ...
Nine days after submitting Lexify, my first iPhone app, I received an email today from Apple that the app has been approved--on a Sunday even! The app's status changed from the "in review" yellow light to the pleasant "ready for sale" green light. I did end up going back to change my App Store images to jpegs a few days ago just to make sure that wouldn't cause any problems. So Revelary now officially has a released product! I added it under the Education category in iTunes for a price of $4.... Continue reading ...
It's been a week now and my iPhone app still shows "in review" on the iTunesConnect site. Good news about PhoneGap though--I found out you can use the onTouchStart event instead of onClick to get buttons to respond immediately. Here's a link to the PhoneGap Google Group post for more info. Continue reading ...
I downloaded the PhoneGap project for cross platform development on iPhone, Android and Blackberry. The idea is that you write apps using standard web development technologies (HTML, CSS and JavaScript) and they end up looking and acting like standalone applications. I tried out the sample PhoneGap project in the iPhone simulator and on my iPod Touch. While the interface looks fine, I was a little disappointed. When you touch a button on the app, there's a very noticeable delay (maybe half a s... Continue reading ...
Two days after submitting my first iPhone app to the App Store, my financial contract has been changed to "contract in effect". Both Lexify and Lexify Lite show "in review" for their status but this is no surprise. I'm expecting the review process to take about a week. Continue reading ...
In August 2008 I decided I wanted to teach myself to develop software for the iPhone with my limited amount of free time. I decided to buy a MacBook which happened to be the first non-Microsoft computer I had ever owned. After nine months and $100 for an iPhone developer license, I finally have something to show for it--assuming of course that my app ( Lexify) gets approved by Apple for distribution on the iTunes App Store. As I was doing the actual app submission last night and today, I decide... Continue reading ...
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