For still unknown reasons our Lametard IQ app [App Store] has taken off like a rocket in the App Store, surpassing 1600 downloads a day. This wasn’t supposed to happen. It’s a half-baked app which should’ve been dead on arrival. So what’s going on?
In the App Store there are a few so-so reviews and about 2 1/2 stars. Google “Lametard IQ” and there’s nothing but links to fake App review sites. You know, the sites which mine data from the App Store and republish it hoping to get 5% commission on click-through sales. A Twitter search reveals nothing.
Originally this app was released at 99 cents to get the price-drop effect, where people download it just because the price drops to free. Thereafter downloads gradually dropped to in-line with what you’d see for free apps, somewhere below 200 a day. But then about the 26th the downloads started taking off.
My guess is that Lametard IQ showed up on a list somewhere but I don’t know where just yet. Although 1600 downloads a day isn’t huge, compared to the 10, 20, or 30 thousand a day some apps get, it still aint bad.
Meanwhile, we’ve submitted to Apple a fully baked update for Lametard IQ which should help it keep moving up the charts.