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Your biggest problem is that your MMO will be a ghost town at first. So I wouldn't discount the 99-cent price point to begin with. You want to...
Unfortunately, there will be others following in his footsteps. The App Store is structured to make this an optimal financial strategy, and the...
The distribution of connections in many networks often follows a power law. Power law distributions appear in cases where there is a...
A couple reasons. One, for the same reason people buy lottery tickets, which is that they vastly overestimate their chances of winning. Two, they...
App Sales vs Dev Effort There's probably a weak correlation but as others have noted, most apps sell very few copies regardless of the effort...
Putting out a quality game is like buying lots of lottery tickets, as opposed to putting out, say, a picture of a turtle, which is like buying one...
How do you know this? If you knew nothing about the actual sales figures and were told that both Pocket God and Flight Control were failures, I'll...
How would you know about such an app? By definition, if it fails miserably it gets no publicity. In order to be sure you weren't missing out on...
We're in Austin TX and an undisclosed location in southeastern Michigan.
The Importance of Updating the Availability Date I think there's enough evidence accumulated now to safely say that the App Store is not a...
Contrary to the impression you'd get reading beginner's tutorials, you don't need IB at all to build an app. In fact, I'd recommend against using...
That's a great point. If people reading this get nothing else out of this discussion, that's one thing they should take away from all this.
Eric5h5: This is really interesting intel. Regarding the Featured apps vs the Top 100, I would expect there to be a lag between getting Featured...
These are all good suggestions, some of which we've done (or at least attempted). We're in Austin TX, a city in which you can't swing a dead cat...
idespair: Not sure what kind of metrics you'd expect us to post on our website, but I can tell you that we do track our website traffic. But if...
Not quite. We're essentially talking about game theory here. You're criticizing a certain strategy as being counterproductive, while I am arguing...
The App Store's problems are structural In an ordinary software market, I think most of this is good advice. I'd be careful about #7, which...
App Store review system considered harmful I think the App Store reviews are frankly useless. An unmoderated five-star rating system is easily...
