Comments on: Changing the App Store Availability Date For Fun & Profit http://blog.weareuproar.com/changing-the-app-store-availability-date-for-fun-profit Crafting convenient mobile apps for your life. Sun, 08 Aug 2010 05:14:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Jiropole http://blog.weareuproar.com/changing-the-app-store-availability-date-for-fun-profit/comment-page-1#comment-1150 Jiropole Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:54:16 +0000 http://blog.weareuproar.com/?p=323#comment-1150 Thanks Kevin for this clarification on the availability date. Very helpful for new developers and veterans alike. We made a mistake last year that cost us days off the store, which will never happen again now! Thanks Kevin for this clarification on the availability date. Very helpful for new developers and veterans alike. We made a mistake last year that cost us days off the store, which will never happen again now!

]]> By: Dean http://blog.weareuproar.com/changing-the-app-store-availability-date-for-fun-profit/comment-page-1#comment-982 Dean Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:20:13 +0000 http://blog.weareuproar.com/?p=323#comment-982 We had a product on the store approved three weeks ago, but it just posted today. I wish I had known about this earlier. It's a good thing this wasn't our flagship app, but just an app to see if we could see how things worked. ( don't get me wrong, it's good app, we're very upset about the placement it has right now). If this had been our major app, we really would have missed out on one of the few things Apple does to help promote apps... The newly added category. Now we're buried four pages in. Very disappointing. Thanks for letting us know what do next time. We had a product on the store approved three weeks ago, but it just posted today. I wish I had known about this earlier. It’s a good thing this wasn’t our flagship app, but just an app to see if we could see how things worked. ( don’t get me wrong, it’s good app, we’re very upset about the placement it has right now). If this had been our major app, we really would have missed out on one of the few things Apple does to help promote apps… The newly added category. Now we’re buried four pages in. Very disappointing.

Thanks for letting us know what do next time.

]]> By: kevin http://blog.weareuproar.com/changing-the-app-store-availability-date-for-fun-profit/comment-page-1#comment-18 kevin Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:30:18 +0000 http://blog.weareuproar.com/?p=323#comment-18 The intention isn't to hide the location of the URL. As an aside, bit.ly can be determined easily by simply appending a + to the end of the URL. For example, http://bit.ly/3vGA83+. Additionally, if you're using Firefox you can install the bit.ly preview addon (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10297). The reason why I used the bit.ly link here is because I want to see exactly how many people are clicking on the link to the iTunes page for Gratuitous. Unfortunately, Apple does not provide developers with any data on page views for our iTunes app pages. Therefore, we're left to try and gauge how many people click on the link. When you post a link on a forum, twitter, etc, unless its wrapped with a tracking service (like bit.ly), you have no idea how many people viewed the link. I touched upon this in a blog post last week which you can read here: http://blog.weareuproar.com/6-free-tools-we-couldnt-live-without/ Thanks for reading! The intention isn’t to hide the location of the URL. As an aside, bit.ly can be determined easily by simply appending a + to the end of the URL. For example, http://bit.ly/3vGA83+. Additionally, if you’re using Firefox you can install the bit.ly preview addon (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10297).

The reason why I used the bit.ly link here is because I want to see exactly how many people are clicking on the link to the iTunes page for Gratuitous. Unfortunately, Apple does not provide developers with any data on page views for our iTunes app pages. Therefore, we’re left to try and gauge how many people click on the link. When you post a link on a forum, twitter, etc, unless its wrapped with a tracking service (like bit.ly), you have no idea how many people viewed the link.

I touched upon this in a blog post last week which you can read here: http://blog.weareuproar.com/6-free-tools-we-couldnt-live-without/

Thanks for reading!

]]> By: Ölbaum http://blog.weareuproar.com/changing-the-app-store-availability-date-for-fun-profit/comment-page-1#comment-17 Ölbaum Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:12:21 +0000 http://blog.weareuproar.com/?p=323#comment-17 What's the point in putting a bit.ly URL in a blog post, except that it hides the fact that it's an App Store link? What’s the point in putting a bit.ly URL in a blog post, except that it hides the fact that it’s an App Store link?

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