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 [...]
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 [...]
Last night I went to see a show at The Loft Bar in Fremantle. The Fremantle Street Arts Festival was in full swing over the Easter weekend, and in the evening they had a grouped performance, which saved having to go and see the individual acts during the day. Some of the acts were very [...]