The New Look

Merry Christmas everybody! I’ve been seeing a handful of iPhone OS 4 Christmas Wish Lists floating about today, so I thought I’d post about what I want to see in iPhone OS 4: Simple Springboard. The idea is a version of Springboard with drastically reduced functionality – very much like the Simple Finder on Mac […]

My entry for BabyGrow in The Great App Bake Off.

I recently received Spanish language translations of all of the strings in BabyGrow, and am currently working on integrating it into the app. Before sending the strings off to be translated, I spent a little time cleaning up the strings file. There were several duplicates, some that were obsolete, etc. The result is a much […]

Tuesday morning, as part of my ordinary morning routine, I launched AppViz to take a look at my previous day’s sales of BabyGrow. I was shocked to find I had sold more than twice as many as my prior best sales day – which itself was more than twice as many as average. I was certain I […]

Sometime between when I checked yesterday morning and this afternoon, the iTunes App Store search was “fixed” so that all of my keywords for BabyGrow now work! That means customers can now find the app by searching for “growth chart.” It only took, what, 2 months? At any rate, I’m glad the issue is finally resolved. […]

I wish this post could be about how Apple fixed the search functionality in the iTunes App Store, and that potential customers could find BabyGrow with sensible searches like “growth chart” But it’s not. In fact, as of yesterday, the situation has become even worse. I hadn’t been keeping track of what search terms matched […]

Just about a month ago, Apple started requiring iPhone app developers to specify a list of keywords for their apps. The keywords would be used as part of the iTunes App Store search algorithm and, in theory, will eventually supplant searching through the app’s description. As a good little iPhone app developer, I did as […]