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My Experience in the Educational Apps Market – 2013 report
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think my luck is that I was here at the beginning of the /marketiPad. I was not thinking the market would grow so much. Using the Montessori name was not a big marketing plan actually (I was really dumb about marketing 3 years ago - just check the name of my company, it is really not good - especially for the US Market!). It was just because the concept was coming from a Montessori activites my homeschooled daughte…
I'm not familiar with Montessori and the search results regarding what it is are confusing. Is it a company that produces educational products that haven't been "digitized" or a theory/method?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education
Now there is a lot of discussions on how this approach can be translated to touch devices because moving things in the real world is something important in the approach. But most of Montessori people thinks that it is just another tool that can be useful (I think that too - it is just another tool) and there are certified Montessori teachers (I'm not) that are doing apps, and a lot of teachers told me that they love my apps
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#23Nice this is awesome I dabbled in iOS dev one summer but my simple apps looked horrible. If you can find something that targets children the parents will buy. When I worked in a restaurant you wont believe how many parents would just give the kid an iPad/iPhone so they would calm down, worked immediately. Kudos for making an app that actually has the kids learning instead of some trippy cartoon to watch. 2.99 is a go…
Seems like bad/lazy parenting, but hey.. good for our industry.
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#24Nice this is awesome I dabbled in iOS dev one summer but my simple apps looked horrible. If you can find something that targets children the parents will buy. When I worked in a restaurant you wont believe how many parents would just give the kid an iPad/iPhone so they would calm down, worked immediately. Kudos for making an app that actually has the kids learning instead of some trippy cartoon to watch. 2.99 is a go…
Seems like bad/lazy parenting, but hey.. good for our industry.
Let's say that you can't always play with your kids, so sometimes it's nice that they have some toys to play with...By the way, my kids are just around with friends and they are playing with.. Playmobil (whereas there 5 ipads available)
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#25Let me know if you have questions (I'm the lucky indie dev who wrote the post)
Aren't you afraid that by posting this you are going to attract a lot of unwelcome competition?
If you'll only spend your time working on a product for some niche that no one has found, you'll end up with nothing. Competition is inevitable, so it's best to face it and never fear it.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Aren't you afraid that by posting this you are going to attract a lot of unwelcome competition?
If you'll only spend your time working on a product for some niche that no one has found, you'll end up with nothing. Competition is inevitable, so it's best to face it and never fear it.
Yes its a fundamental precept of any new business idea that existing competition validates the idea, it doesn't shoot it down.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Aren't you afraid that by posting this you are going to attract a lot of unwelcome competition?
actually I've done this report in 2011 and 2012, and at this time this was really a good question because there was not so much competion. Nowadays as maxerison unerlined, there is a lot of competition (and I'm happy to still have a good visibility). I was even wondering if it was interesting to publish my report this year (I mean not only for my ego) but several devs told me that it was inspirational and give them e…
I'm glad you chose to publish the report, as even skimming it (will read thoroughly later) I found it really useful. It is great to see some real-world figures about what app makers are able to earn.
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#28Nice this is awesome I dabbled in iOS dev one summer but my simple apps looked horrible. If you can find something that targets children the parents will buy. When I worked in a restaurant you wont believe how many parents would just give the kid an iPad/iPhone so they would calm down, worked immediately. Kudos for making an app that actually has the kids learning instead of some trippy cartoon to watch. 2.99 is a go…
Seems like bad/lazy parenting, but hey.. good for our industry.
Yes some cases it was bad/lazy parenting. A few times I saw whole families that would each have their own tablet with minimal interaction with each other.
But those were extremes most families would take away the tablet during the meal or after. Kids tend to get crazy in anticipation of the food, the tablet calmed them.
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#29A local school recently voted to introduce iPads into schools. Immediately following the vote, there was a huge backlash from the parents about why the school thought it was a great idea to give a platform for messaging and gaming to their kids.
I wish more parents and educators actually understood the benefit and potential of computers in classrooms. Thank you for helping the cause in a huge way!
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Aren't you afraid that by posting this you are going to attract a lot of unwelcome competition?
actually I've done this report in 2011 and 2012, and at this time this was really a good question because there was not so much competion. Nowadays as maxerison unerlined, there is a lot of competition (and I'm happy to still have a good visibility). I was even wondering if it was interesting to publish my report this year (I mean not only for my ego) but several devs told me that it was inspirational and give them e…
Oh wow, now that I actually hit the article, I remember at least one of the previous articles! Congrats, glad to see this is still going strong!