We’re making some changes with Lingopal, and we think they’ll be for the better.
1) Lingopal will be available as single language apps. In fact, German and Japanese are available already, for US$0.99. These will be known as ‘Lingopal German’, ‘Lingopal Japanese’, ‘Lingopal language name … etc.’
These work very much like the main app, in that [...]
It’s been over 5 weeks since we submitted the OS 3.0 update for Voyage, and it has finally been approved. There’s understandable relief on one part, but a gnawing anxiety on another.
We are in the process of submitting a new round of apps to Apple for approval, and based on our experiences to date, I’m [...]
After sales dropped right off in Japan following the OS 3.0 debacle, I was nervous whether we would ever be able to recover there. That #3 spot we held for so long was highly cherished.
Then something happened a couple of days ago. Our sales in Japan jumped over 1000% and we are now at #2. [...]
Lingopal has now been on sale for 2 weeks, so it’s a good time to have a look at how we’ve been going.
Apple gives us the ability to see the downloads on a daily basis. It’s pretty detailed, splitting the information into geographical iTunes stores and their respective currencies. So far we’ve had sales from [...]
I guess it’s a resources thing.
Apple has something like 88 iTunes stores right now, some for countries which are well off the beaten track. But they only offer localisation for six non-speaking languages: German, French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish and Japanese.
We’ve done translations for all of these, but with varied results. Here’s the Japanese translation in [...]
I’m beginning to be reminded of my teenage years asking girls to dance.
Then the only effects were wounded pride and a hot flush to the cheeks, but these rejections from Apple come with a cost - not only in resubmission but also in loss of potential income. For a small start-up watching every dollar (believe [...]