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Business owners should think of an app as an extra benefit to a paid service or product rather than the product itself.
This explains why they merged iOS dev accounts and Mac accounts at WWDC. I wonder if this will help - I've been an iOS dev for a while and have always been curious to run some open source OS X apps like mpv on my Mac but was restricted.
The article makes some fundamental mistakes: 1) It talks about an app that reached #8 in "Top Paid". The more interesting list would be "Top Grossing" 2) It talks about a trivial app that was created with very little effort. While gimmick apps might work on iOS, people prefer to buy actually useful software on the Mac. The title is still somewhat true: It's unlikely you will become very rich by selling Mac Apps. But…
One of your apps is to view Access DB on Macs. I'd have never guessed in a million years that people are still using Access, and that it is possible to build a business on top of it. Goes to show that all these rankings etc don't matter as much as we are led to believe.
You do see it used quite frequently in enterprise situations where desktop users have outgrown Excel but aren't quite ready to deal with a server-based database.
Filemaker Pro is still hanging around too, for what it's worth.
The article makes some fundamental mistakes: 1) It talks about an app that reached #8 in "Top Paid". The more interesting list would be "Top Grossing" 2) It talks about a trivial app that was created with very little effort. While gimmick apps might work on iOS, people prefer to buy actually useful software on the Mac. The title is still somewhat true: It's unlikely you will become very rich by selling Mac Apps. But…
The article also refers to Macs as PCs!
The article makes some fundamental mistakes: 1) It talks about an app that reached #8 in "Top Paid". The more interesting list would be "Top Grossing" 2) It talks about a trivial app that was created with very little effort. While gimmick apps might work on iOS, people prefer to buy actually useful software on the Mac. The title is still somewhat true: It's unlikely you will become very rich by selling Mac Apps. But…
One of your apps is to view Access DB on Macs. I'd have never guessed in a million years that people are still using Access, and that it is possible to build a business on top of it. Goes to show that all these rankings etc don't matter as much as we are led to believe.
When I go to migrate data it's very convenient to pull up an Access viewer on OSX to get a feel for the data structure so I can inform the customer on what will be migrated. Saves the minute it takes to boot up a Windows VM (and pay monthly for Access 365).
I have been lucky and is doing fairly well with Ghostnote on the mac app store. My product is also lucky to be the only one of it's kind as far as I am aware, which means no competitor and plenty of room to grow it. However I learned the hard way how dysfunctional the Mac App Store is mainly because Apple ignore it compared to the iOs app store and because their Sandboxing is so opaque it's hindering a lot of good in…
> top 5 in productivity apps. Mobile purchasing is ruled by iOS in the states, at least. Desktop purchasing, especially in regards to productivity, is ruled by Windows. Those fancy macs you see everywhere are little more than dedicated facebook machines. Those people are interested in your product, generally. Or if they are, it'll be for their work computer and paid for by the IT department. Do you have a windows ver…
People have been saying things like that about apple since forever, yet even NextStep was able to maintain a viable community of full time software developers and companies that exclusively published for the platform. Some of them are still around. Just look at OmniGroup. Do you think they're likely to be doing better nowaday, or worse?
The fact is the Mac has always done well as a third party software platform because Mac owners have always been more willing to pay for high quality software than PC owners. It's just that the OSX App Store has never really taken off as a distribution channel for that software.
I have been lucky and is doing fairly well with Ghostnote on the mac app store. My product is also lucky to be the only one of it's kind as far as I am aware, which means no competitor and plenty of room to grow it. However I learned the hard way how dysfunctional the Mac App Store is mainly because Apple ignore it compared to the iOs app store and because their Sandboxing is so opaque it's hindering a lot of good in…
Didn't the sandbox give you trouble, though? I thought it wouldn't be possible for a sandboxed app to get the user's context like that.
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OmniFocus 2 is $39.99 on iPhone and very popular. Their suite is $149.99.
Does anyone purchase it for iPhone that hasn't made the investment elsewhere?
- download desktop trial
- buy iOS app
- begin to like the combination
- buy desktop app
I have been lucky and is doing fairly well with Ghostnote on the mac app store. My product is also lucky to be the only one of it's kind as far as I am aware, which means no competitor and plenty of room to grow it. However I learned the hard way how dysfunctional the Mac App Store is mainly because Apple ignore it compared to the iOs app store and because their Sandboxing is so opaque it's hindering a lot of good in…
Ghostnote surely looks interesting. Probably the reason you are doing well is that it seems new and fresh. Didn't the sandbox give you trouble, though? I thought it wouldn't be possible for a sandboxed app to get the user's context like that.
We basically had to white label the apps we want document support for and we have to have the user to install document support manually too.
But we did make it so that people who know a little applescript can add their own apps and in general add all sorts of scripts to their apps. You can see how here http://www.ghostnoteapp.com/blog/how-to-manually-add-new-doc...