Comments on: How to purchase an iPhone app

By: Joeman67

Joeman67 — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:55:12 +0000

This was a wonderful documentation of your plan> it shows that you bring ideas to life.

By: fulhamelfrieda1963

fulhamelfrieda1963 — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:51:09 +0000

Thanks for all you ideas! I sure will be back to visit your site again so i can learn more.

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:13:51 +0000

Ortwin,

thanks for sharing your personal business and giving us a glimpse of a new market that i believe in to have a great potential.

I’ll buy a Where To as soon as i send this comment. Please, let me know if you need any volunteers to help with a Spanish localization.

Thanks again,
Ricardo.

By: Joel Mueller

Joel Mueller — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:40:50 +0000

Ortwin,
Thanks for the post. Writing about how you choose your valuation was interesting.
-j
http://www.macupdate.com

By: @the_holger

@the_holger — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:35:01 +0000

Extremely interesting posting about the sale/purchase of an iPhone app http://tinyurl.com/6gzpux

By: Aslam Nathoo

Aslam Nathoo — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:39:03 +0000

Ortwin,

Thank you for continuing John’s tradition of transparency. Because of that, your blog will now be added to my Top Favourites list as John’s was.

I am not involved in the iPhone software market at all (other than as a consumer). However, I am a Sales and Biz Dev Director for a Managed Service Provider that sells to Mid-Market Businesses which means I face similar challenges as you, albeit in a different space of the market. As such, the information on valuations, sales volumes and how sales and marketing affects those in your market space is very interesting to me. As well the transparency you guys operate with is also very interesting to me. It is not something that has been common (up until now with you and John) but I often times wish it were. I think we could learn a lot more if we shared more and I believe that the cost:benefit is definitely positive.

Anyways, let me wish you good luck and encourage you to maintain this level of transparency.

If I can help in any way, please let me know!

Sincerely,
Aslam

By: johnny

johnny — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:52:16 +0000

WfBVW3 Thanks for good post

By: Ortwin Gentz

Ortwin Gentz — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:18:23 +0000

@Mark, thanks for pointing this out. We do see major benefits of a british localisation and plan to do that for one of the next releases.
Any volunteers to help with a british localisation? Since only some specific terms need to be changed, it should be much less work than any other language. Let me know at localisation@futuretap.com.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:02:44 +0000

Great to see it back. As some of the reviews in the App Store seem to confirm, it would be worth considering a British localisation alongside the others you’re planning, since we have plenty of alternate terminology and are at pains to understand each other’s naming of things at times!

By: Ortwin Gentz

Ortwin Gentz — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:12:31 +0000

@John, so far it’s too early to tell since Where To is available for only less than one week. At least, it’s (slowly) climbing up the charts. Stay tuned here, I’ll post some stats in the near future.