It is weird. Previously the Popularity of Spell Number drop significantly in one day, and now it still don't grow even the download rate is hugh. Today, another thing happened, all reviews in US App Store are gone. Ratings are still there, now 7900 users rated but got 0 reviews...

Thanks to Apple, my developer program membership is extended to 11th July 2009, i.e., one year after the launch of 3G iPhone. This also means I have to earn another USD99 for next year's membership fee.

I checked an one star bad review of my Spell Number on US AppStore. It's okay since I got 1 star and 5 stars review every day. But look at this one:

Apple just notified me that I have to remove the easter egg of Spell Number that enable emoji for iPhone/iPod Touch. So in next version (e.g. 1.04), there is be no more easter egg.

For the current user:

• If you have downloaded old version (e.g. 1.03) have already enabled emoji, the emoji will not be disabled after your upgrade Spell Number to 1.04.
• If you emoji is already enabled, the setting will still be here when you restore your data from iTune. So in general, you don't need Spell Number to enable emoji anymore unless you competely reset your iPhone.

Well, I did some silly thing yesterday. I changed the price of my app "Spelll Number" from FREE to USD0.99. I am not greedy, I just want to test the effect of changing the price of an application in AppStore. My theory is, there is so many websites, apps, and robots tracking the price change in AppStore, I want to see how the sales figure change if I suddenly set a FREE app to USD 0.99 and then set back to FREE in a short time.

A very useful Mac widget that show the reviews of your apps in all countries. Although a little bit slow to retrieve all information.

http://bluespark.tumblr.com/post/51328643/appstorereview-dashboard-widge...