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Our Stupid App Breaks Into Top 100
Our half-baked and ill-conceived Lametard IQ app has been hovering around #70 in the Entertainment|Free category of the App Store. This is rather interesting for devs because first it reveals how many downloads per day you’d expect to see at this level, about 1600/day. If you’re interested in Lite-to-Full conversions then that would translate into [...]
Continue reading...Lametard IQ Breaks Out, Downloads Rocket
3. April 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Lametard IQ, New Version Released
3. April 2009
I got caught not knowing what’s going on with the first release of Lametard IQ [App Store] and have scrambled to put together a complete app with this new version. The first release has, for still unknown reasons, rocketed in the App Store. It was actually a half-baked app that I wasn’t particularly anxious to [...]
Continue reading...Is TechCrunch Creating Panic Among App Developers?
26. March 2009
There’s a growing anger among iPhone app developers at the current state of affairs. For many devs the game seems to be rigged and not in their favor. Their hopes of getting established as little software shops, maybe even big shops, are getting thrown about by the realities of the work that must come after [...]
Continue reading...Can You Trust iTunes App Store Reviews?
25. March 2009
It’s finally starting to hit main street that the App Store review system is busted. PC World has a scathing article here and it’s reprinted on MacWorld here. We’ve pointed this problem out ourselves here. The gist of what’s going on is developers are 5-starring their own apps while 1-starring the competition. Not just one [...]
Continue reading...iTunes Tweaks Search Results, Bad for Developers
14. March 2009
This week there seems to have been a change in the search algorithm used by iTunes. Previously, you could search for any app name and get a large list of results. From our own experience the app description affected these search results. Keywords were important and if the description contained those keywords then it would [...]
Continue reading...iTunes 8.1 Tweaks App Ratings System
13. March 2009
The feedback ratings system used by iTunes was busted before iTunes 8.1 was released. The new version of iTunes makes some adjustments to improve the effectiveness of the rating system, but problems will persist. Last year (2008) iPhone developers were gaming the system in various ways to artificially move their apps up the ratings system, [...]
Continue reading...A New Way to Make Money with Apps
12. March 2009
Tausendstern, a not so memorable developer name, has a different approach to earning dollors (or euros) off their apps — sell the source code. I came across this outfit while doing research on budget apps for our own upcoming iBudget. Tausendstern has a budget app but it’s not very good. By that I mean not [...]
Continue reading...50 Dollars — Going Price for an App Review
11. March 2009
Developers need their apps for the iPhone to get noticed if they’re going to have any chance of catching on. With the flood of stuff hitting the market lately there’s little chance of standing out. Therefore many turn to any number of iPhone app review sites which feature submission forms developers can use to get [...]
Continue reading...Lametard IQ for iPhone
10. March 2009
If you’re looking for some fun with friends, Lametard IQ has the answer. It’s basically an idiot test and you may already have seen the questions, but do you remember the answers? Good for a few minutes of fun, and it’s free, so why not! Enjoy. Update: We have removed Lametard IQ from sale in [...]
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7. April 2009
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