BillMinder is our most popular application. It has been in the Top 20 Paid Finance apps since it’s release over a year ago. We recently made a lot of changes to BillMinder and got some unexpected but appreciated help from Apple, <3. We thought we’d share what we did and what it changed.
The changes Apple made to its App Store through the release of iTunes 9 are being met with a mixture of gratitude and worry by iPhone developers. There’s appreciation for changes that improve app exposure but some developers, particularly smaller ones, are seeing a decline in sales.
Beyond the ongoing controversy over Apple’s management of the iPhone app approval process — which culminated in the unusual public posting of Apple’s response to an FCC inquiry about the way Apple vets apps — there’s the more mundane difficulty the company faces in managing its success.
