Browsing Archive: December, 2011

The 99 Cent

Posted by Stuart Carmichael on Tuesday, December 27, 2011, In : Economics 
Why charge 99 cents for an app that could also just be given away for free?  After all, the economics that go with 99 apps is pretty grim.  Grim as in, don't quit your day job.  Grim as in, welcome to the new World order of whales and free-minums.  It costs about a dollar to drive a single visitor to your app website using online advertising.  If the app store lets you keep about 70 cents on the dollar and you are charging just less than a dollar, it is a losing proposition.  So unless you ar...

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Tax Off, Tax On

Posted by Stuart Carmichael on Tuesday, December 20, 2011, In : Mechanics 

Who would have thought resolving a pending tax issue could be so exciting?  But that was just what it felt like when my iOS Paid Applications contract with went from Pending Tax to Processing and then quickly to Effective.   Getting started with a development certificate and putting my app onto my own iPod was straight forward.  Getting it a spot in the app store was a little more involved.  Here is an outline of events and some hindsight.


As it sometimes is, the internet was long on informa...


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Plans vs. Zombies

Posted by Stuart Carmichael on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, In : Curiosity 
I've seen enough smart phone zombies squashed and irritable birds chucked to last me awhile.  I carry a less-than-smart phone with its week-long battery life and lightening fast text messaging.  Sure, each received e-mail message appears on my handset like some kind of lesser miracle.  Like tuning in the local radio station using duct tape and a cinderblock.

But curiosity finally got the better of me, especially because a similar family of questions kept coming up at the engineering meetings I...

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