I'm not sure this is entirely true. When I try to D/L an app from the store on the device, and that app is > 10MB I am greeted with the following message: "This application is over 10MB Connect to a Wi-Fi network or use iTunes on your computer to download [the app]" As games become more in-depth and complex, the chances of them being greater than 10MB grows as well.
I really hope that Apple fixes this soon or sales will plummet. I think we will all have to put more money into marketing muscle. If we weren't featured right now there is no way you could find our game.
Version 1.12 is a later version than 1.2. OS X 10.4.11 was a later version than OS X 10.4.2. Version 1.1.2, on the other hand, would be an earlier version than 1.2. Makes perfect sense; version numbers are not decimals and never were. As far as the "7% buy on iTunes", I find that extremely hard to believe. When Apple featured my game, it was featured on iTunes but not on the device store, and yet my sales still went up massively. Seems more like 50/50 to me. (Personally I've only ever bought on iTunes.) --Eric
after actually upgrading to itunes 9, I'm not sure I still believe subcats will be coming back. though they are still in the mobile store. arn
I'm still holding out hope, given that the Games link is still pointing to the old iTunes styled page. And when you navigate behind the scenes, you can get to top 200 sub games lists. Otherwise, I guess we're going to find out real quick if that 7% iTunes estimate is correct.
so sad, this is the last week of my game been featured in what we are playing, but now, whole featured things are GONE! guess my sales today will be very ugly
Actually, arn, don't you get the feeling that the App section of iTunes is not quite finished yet? If you over to Movies, for example, you get a screen very similar to the one for the general App Store. When you choose a Movie category, though, you don't get an old-style page like in the Game section: instead you get a page set up in the new layout with new and noteworthy and other featured films. Same with music and TV shows. That's what I would expect the Apps/Games page to eventually look like...
I changed my newest game to the title " Puzzles " I have just submitted it. So "Puzzle" is already gone> and hopefully they accept my game called "Puzzles". So please don't use the word Puzzles in your Keywords anymore! If you want to submit in the puzzle(s) category please come up with a fictional name. That way your app won't be refused!
Spare a thought for us- we have an app in the Music category- that entire category has gone missing in iTunes 9 (barring using the column browser that hardly anyone knows about)- that can't be good for sales... Today's been a bad joke for us. We tested on the OS3.1 beta, but when OS3.1 is rolled out it has undocumented differences to the beta and introduces bugs into our app. So feeling thoroughly unloved by Apple today.
The app ''Puzzle" To make matters even more interesting the app called "Puzzle" happens to be one of those 1 to 15 sliding puzzles. Murphy's Law! So you can't use the word puzzle anymore because someone has placed a cookie cutter app with the name "Puzzle" up on iTunes? This defies any logic.
I hope you're being sarcastic. Why would you deliberately try to mess up nearly 5,000 apps' keywords? Not that I think anyone will get rejected for using puzzle or puzzles in their keywords, but still.
Which is why it isn't true. All six (Lites included) of my apps use "puzzle" and half of them came out during the keyword rejection cycle. Apple isn't going to allow common word squatting. It would make searches meaningless to customers.
seriously ? you can not use word "PUZZLE", you guys must be joking right ?? there is no way they will reject that keyword, it's a common word
Of course I am joking. I just really wanted to make sure that the stupidity of this" Puzzle " issue will be looked at. This is crazy! Imagine going to the USPTO and asking to trademark the word "Puzzle". On a side note I am noticing something that everyone should be made aware of. If I search for the word "Puzzles" on the new iTunes. All my games and all Little White bear studios come up on the first page near the beginning. I am quite sure it is related to the fact that the puzzle games are listed according to what the specific user "searched previously" I did look at your games early tonight. A friend tried the same search and has never searched my games before. They don't show up at all for him. deeply hidden. So be careful the puzzles you are seeing are different to the rest of the world. Am I wrong. Or am I seeing this correctly that the search feature has a memory.
One person said they were rejected for using that word. Personally, I think they just got a stupid reviewer who was taking the "don't let them use any existing app names" directive too literally. I assure you, a lot of apps have passed with puzzle in the keywords.
If I search on puzzles, I get: Brain Teasers! Subway Shuffle Connect the Dots Word Warp Amazing Illusions TanZen Free Word Ward Subway Shuffle Lite Logic Puzzles Zentomino I haven't searched on my games recently, so who knows how they're organizing the search. It's not by sales, that's for sure.
Just for yucks, I did the same search on two iPhones in the house. Both came up with the exact same list that iTunes did. Maybe that's the default list, since I never did any searches.
