> I'm considering producing globalised versions of a product - German, French,
> Spanish, Italian etc. However the application was not originally built with
> this in mind, so it will involve extra work (on top of the translation
> work).
>
> I'd like to know if this is considered worthwhile? Have products with
> alternative languages received enough extra sales to make it worth the
> effort?
As one datapoint, here are the latest numbers for Crosswords 3.0,
which is available in English and German on PalmGear. Note that
Crosswords is free, and a game, so YMMV.
The German version was posted a month or so after the English one, and
never got the front-page time that accounts for a significant
percentage of the English version's numbers.
I ask that users register Crosswords via picture postcards. My vague
impression is that a larger percentage of English-speaking users have
done so that German, but I'm not about to count all the cards to
confirm.
--Eric House
Below are the Monthly Stats for your Applications:
Application Title: Crosswords 3.0
Link to Product:
http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?prodID=4117
Total Downloads: 2722
Last Month's Downloads: 360
Application Title: Crosswords German
Link to Product:
http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?prodID=4778
Total Downloads: 145
Last Month's Downloads: 43
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