The News
Apple Released the iPad Air and iPad Mini Retina
Those iOS 7 icons zoom at you doing 20 miles/hour
The Discussion
Downsides to iOS 7 app auto-updates from the developers perspective.
A tale of 2 Games
Different revenue models
Free
In App Purchase
Paid
Download Numbers
Press
Getting Featured
Tetra
Free, in "Board games and puzzles"
Tried to get press.
Sent out pitch emails, but no traction
Released the week before Burning Man
Showed up in an AppAdvice article
Featured in International App stores
24,400 Downloads
5,000 in US/UK
19,000 Other International
138 unlock purchases, half from US/UK, other half from other international users.
WordGrid
No press
197 purchases of the app
#16 top paid word game
Library created for social gaming, not publicly available, more to come in the future.
Are paid apps dead?
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Picks
Chad (@jazzychad)
The Mantle Project by GitHub
WordGrid
Jason (@jak)
Anti-pick: Cocoapods
John (@johnsextro)
Transporter, your own private cloud
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