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Re:Dropbox is using an unsigned binary to install kernel ext... by charlesdm on Monday February 27, 2017 @07:20AM (#13743672)
Not enough companies do this. User experience and ease of use is frankly one of the most important things (and this is coming from a developer).

I can't remember the amount of times I've gotten frustrated with (beautifully written) open source software, but with a horrible complex UI that takes hours to figure out how to use. Those are hours of my life I'm not getting back.

Why can't stuff just work?

Disclosure: I've actually made a fair penny taking open source projects (not adjusting anything) and slapping a nice UI on it, doing nothing more than that. Good UI and UX matters and people will pay for it.

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Re:Dropbox is using an unsigned binary to install kernel ext... by ThomPete on Monday February 27, 2017 @08:03AM (#13743860)
Agree but if you want thing to work on appstore it become even worse. Thats why i pulled my app from the app store 6 months after lunch and instead are selling directly. Havent looked back since.
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Re:Dropbox is using an unsigned binary to install kernel ext... by charlesdm on Monday February 27, 2017 @08:21AM (#13743937)
How was the revenue from the App Store for your app? How is it now in comparison? How do you market it?
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Re:Dropbox is using an unsigned binary to install kernel ext... by ThomPete on Monday February 27, 2017 @09:03AM (#13744197)
The rev is the same. I was in top 10 on the app store for a good while it didn't do much to my sales so the benefits unless Apple decides to promote you for OSX are more or less null. At least in my experience.

I realized that for the kind of niche productivity software I made Google is a much better app store.

I mostly live of organic traffic and only do actual marketing once in a while. The best is when the product gets exposed to communities who are into productivity.

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