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The Convertbot Plan (Currencies, Releases and More)

We’ve been getting a lot of similar emails about Currencies, Units and what else is coming to Convertbot. This post is an attempt to clear some of that up.

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Ich bin ein Dummkopf

Anyone outside of certain European and South American countries that use a comma as the decimal separator in numbers can safely ignore this posting. Everyone else read on.

Update (04/09/09) : Version 1.0.1 approved and fixes this issue

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Guess the name of our Second App and Win!

Last night we submitted our latest app to Apple. Assuming everything goes well, we should be going live sometime next week so we figured it was a good time to have a little fun. We’d like you to guess what our upcoming app is called. The first 3 to guess correctly before the app is released will win a $20 iTunes gift certificate and the first 10 will win a copy of the new app.

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Latest AppStore Cheat

So I did a search on the AppStore for Rolando to see what the buzz is all about. As part of that search I noticed some totally unrelated apps (which I won’t name them here). Looking at the description of that unrelated app I noticed the following bit of content:

Currently Playing: koi pond, cube, animal farm, hockey, metro, photo bag, filed runners, cro-mag rally, tap tap, rolando, google, texas hold-em, adventure, ocarina, poker, kids, ibear, spore, monkey ball, crash bandicoot, pinball, trism, turkey hunt, oz weather, remote, brain tuner.

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Dear Developers, Please Stop Whining

There’s been a lot of bitching lately about the Top 100 list and $0.99 apps and I’m sick of it. The way to make a successful app is conceptually very simple.

A. Create a quality product
B. Price the product properly
C. Market the product

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