How to make iPhone Apps and Influence People » appstore http://blog.jcmultimedia.com.au Musings on the iPhone development process Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:13:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 App Sale! http://blog.jcmultimedia.com.au/2010/03/app-sale.html http://blog.jcmultimedia.com.au/2010/03/app-sale.html#comments Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:26:07 +0000 Jesse http://blog.jcmultimedia.com.au/?p=141 Now that everything is up to date and Seoul City Metro has been up on the App Store for a few months I think it's time for a sale! I've orchestrated some facebook advertising, updated the Seoul City Metro Website and given the App Store time to propagate both the 1.1.2 update and the new price.

City Metro apps are on sale for this weekend!

Seoul City Metro and Busan City Metro are now on sale until March 22nd!

I've decided to finally attack the $1 price point, as well as give away a premium app for free. I'm hoping this sale can raise the rankings of Seoul City Metro on the Korean App Store over and above the competition apps by being the best looking app at $1. I'm also hoping some good reviews and happy users will lead to some increased exposure and eventually sales for Seoul City Metro. I'll post results of the sale (good or bad!) next week when all the numbers are in.

Checkout the Seoul City Metro website front page for more info!

]]> http://blog.jcmultimedia.com.au/2010/03/app-sale.html/feed 0 Seoul City Metro, and Seoul City Metro Lite are up to date again! http://blog.jcmultimedia.com.au/2010/03/seoul-city-metro-and-seoul-city-metro-lite-are-up-to-date-again.html http://blog.jcmultimedia.com.au/2010/03/seoul-city-metro-and-seoul-city-metro-lite-are-up-to-date-again.html#comments Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:12:02 +0000 Jesse http://blog.jcmultimedia.com.au/?p=134 It had been grating on me over the last couple of weeks knowing that Seoul City Metro and Seoul City Metro Lite were not up to date with the new train stations opened on Line 1 (Dangjeong Station and Seodongtan Station) and Line 3 ( Garak Market, National Police Hospital and Ogeum). I held off an immediate update when the stations opened because I wanted to wait for the SMRT.co.kr maps to be updated properly and I wanted to include a few tweaks to the route detail interface.

New Train Stations added to the Metro Map, March 2010

New stations on line 3

As weeks moved on I was feeling increasingly  like my apps were out of date, and the SMRT maps still hadn't been updated to reflect the new stations. So yesterday I just had had enough and pushed new stations, updated timetables and a manually modified map to both Seoul City Metro, and Seoul City Metro Lite. I was reluctant to manually update the maps because I don't have them in vector format but I was quite happy with the end result. Both updates were approved for sale in under 11 hours - and are available for download das you read this. (iTunes link)

I also managed to include one minor tweak to the route interface, allowing easier access to the timetables for a particular route. Although the timetables are far from where I want them, this is a step in the right direction. Also, the door side is now shown for the destination station the same as it is with transfers. (See screen shot below)

New Route Detail Interface element, click to see the applicable timetable

You can click the blue disclosure button on route start and transfers to see the next trains departing.

In other news:

Custom Seoul City Metro map in early stages

Custom Map to scale in early stages

I've been building my own custom subway map for Seoul that will appear in upcoming versions of Seoul City Metro that will release me from the constraints of the SMRT map. It's well on it's way, you can see images of it's progress via @seoulmetroapp and here.

Busan City Metro is on sale this week too, I've reduced it to $0 as more of a test of the waters. (iTunes Link)

Oh, and I'm back in Melbourne for the time being.

]]> http://blog.jcmultimedia.com.au/2010/03/seoul-city-metro-and-seoul-city-metro-lite-are-up-to-date-again.html/feed 0 Approved in less than 48 hours! http://blog.jcmultimedia.com.au/2010/02/approved-in-less-than-48-hours.html http://blog.jcmultimedia.com.au/2010/02/approved-in-less-than-48-hours.html#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:40:35 +0000 Jesse http://blog.jcmultimedia.com.au/2010/02/approved-in-less-than-48-hours.html I just got emailed this morning that my quick point release for Seoul City Metro has been approved. That was less than 48 hours from submission. Call me impressed!

It's a total change of pace when a new binary can be pushed to customers that quickly. My "What's new in this update" stated that it was just two small bug fixes, I wonder if that had any influence on the review team that saw the initial 1.1 release only 5 days ago.

Anyway, a win! Seoul City Metro Lite is also now in review.

SeoulMetroApp announces it on twitter

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