Agreed Mark, 8 months of engineering and work, and so far a couple of weeks advertising. I'm getting a news spread again in Computer Music magazine, so that should increase visiblity for the new app too. My wife says Im just not patient enough lol.
It's not the slow sales the bother me, it's just the strange download numbers. The slow sales can be worked on with marketing efforts. The download numbers though make we wonder what is going on behind the scenes. -niko On May 10, 3:29 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > niko20 wrote: > > Well this really stinks, I know it can take some time for apps to > > slowly climb in sales, but honestly if this is what most devs > > encounter than no wonder we dont have quality apps in Android. > > Actually, I'd consider your piracy rate to be a positive sign. While all > apps get pirated, they may still not get downloaded by those using > pirate services. More people will download pirated copies of "Iron Man > 2" than have downloaded "Ishtar", for example. The fact that people are > taking the time to examine your app suggests that your app may be of > interest -- what you're lacking is exposure to an audience that might be > interested shelling out $4.99 for your app. That will require real > marketing, and uploading to the Android Market is not "real marketing". > > > I worked on this app for over 8 months > > How much of that was engineering and how much of that was marketing? > > > I dont think its the popularity of the app functionality, I think it's > > loose on some website somewhere - hence my strange download numbers... > > > This. Is. Crap. > > http://www.androidguys.com/2009/12/22/rethinking-android-app-piracy/ > > And, if you decide that the piracy is more than you want to put up with: > > http://www.androidguys.com/2010/03/04/android-business-models/ > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
