How often do you hear the words that it is too late for something, that old trees are not replanting? And how often do you see a smile of pity on the faces of your friends, when you think loudly about changing not only work but also profession at the age of 40? I often...
It's a big day today in Apparent Software land! We would like you all to welcome Mike Glass into our little company. Mike is an experienced Mac and iOS developer with several years behind his belt at Pocket Sevens, developing his own applications and helping numerous...
We never actually planned to go to Macworld until I received an e-mail from IDG, who organize the Macworld Expo, inviting us to sign up as exhibitors in the Indie Software Spotlight section. We have just earned some extra cash from ImageFramer 3 upgrade. So I wanted to...
As you might know, following our major problems with PayPal during our MacGraPhoto bundle, we switched our payment processor to FastSpring. We considered several options based on the excellent article featuring e-commerce providers' survey results by Andy Brice. We...
It was exactly 180 days ago that PayPal froze all money in our account during our MacGraPhoto bundle sale. It was a very negative experience and would've been much worse if my elaborate blog post about this didn't make it first page of reddit with more than 200...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattcarman/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Last week Kosta and I attended an unconference related to business, startups and also some things unrelated to the above. We've been to several interesting lectures and activities and in general had a lot of...
Dec 18 Update: This morning I was contacted by a PayPal manager from their fraud department who talked with me close to an hour. He went out of his way to apologize for their mishandling of my case. He told me that my account was initially so severely limited because...
So I’m back from NSConference. Wow, it was a much exciting experience for me, for several reasons. I’ve entered the Mac development arena about 3 years ago but I’ve never been to any developer conference. WWDC is too far and expensive for me. So when Scotty first...
So far MacHeisthas sold around 43000 bundles. Suppose it sells 60000 in the end. It is 60K copies of software at 95% discount. MacHeist is one of the best marketed software sales on the internet, surely as far as bundles go. It looks like it provides quite good value...
The research below was done by Kosta, who recently joined Apparent Software to lead business development. Having recently entered the world of MicroISV for Mac, one of the first things I wanted to know was what are the characteristics and types of ISV, what are the...