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Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetIt looks like we’ll agree to disagree.
MacUpdate is not just a website. We’re not even a company that is limited to only focus on Mac software (we do TONS of things in our local communities and our non-Mac work is not publicized because our motives are not founded on getting positive public recognition).
MacUpdate has been a website since 1996, and we’ve also been developing software (some free and some shareware) for longer than the foliovision.com domain name has existed. To say that MacUpdate isn’t allowed to develop software seems like a very controlling statement. And to say that MacUpdate is dishonest because we don’t actively promote directly competing software with a main revenue source that keeps our free macupdate.com site alive makes no sense, nor is it very encouraging to hear.
We develop MacUpdate Desktop because it fits perfectly with helping us keep peoples’ Mac software updated. And we make it a $20 shareware app because it costs us a ton of money to develop, hire people to keep our database the most accurate, and keep our servers and bandwidth paid for. MacUpdate Desktop is the backbone of MacUpdate in the same way the iPod and iTunes have become backbones for Apple. If Apple was required to sell the Zune in their stores or promote Microsoft Media Player on their website, that’s just not fair. Any company that is forced to promote direct competition of products that are the financial backbone of the organization is something that will likely never be supported in a free market.
MacUpdate has very little ads cluttering the site, and any user can create a free MacUpdate member account and choose to hide all of the paid ads — at no cost.
We allow free hosting off developers’ files on our servers and bandwidth — at no cost to the developer (freeware has no obligation. shareware we ask them to link to MU’s page on their site so it can remain free for the devs).
MacUpdate goes out of our way to be honest with people, to be the most accurate and timely resource, to give people tools to keep their Mac updated better than anything that’s ever been available, and we help developers promote their software on MacUpdate free of charge. It saddens me to see people try to limit organizations, by putting them in boxes, trying to define what they are and aren’t (especially as an outsider) and trying to force their will on others, as if that is a positive method to use. Typically this is poor form, and forcing people to do things often won’t result in people getting what they really want.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetWe never listed AppFresh is our database, nor have we listed VT Pro. The same is for VT’s site, or any other site that has a base competing product. MacUpdate isn’t a place were all software is promoted. It’s like the iTunes App Store — tons of stuff doesn’t make it every day. It’s not dishonest. Companies shouldn’t be required to promote their competition within their own walls. And of course, it’s not fair for me to say that you can’t choose not to try MacUpdate Desktop. That’s your choice.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetHe’s on the charts for NY Times and Wallstreet best sellers.
These communities are funny. Somehow noah-nation always meets them in person too.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI’ve been talking with a furniture manufacturer in China, barbarafurniture.com. All of their beds are under $300 and look quite nice. Shipping and import/export charges are quite costly, making it more advantageous to import in bulk. Here is a real world example if I decide to order one of the $270 beds:
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1) the freight (from our town to shenzhen warehouse): USD 1472) the local custom clearance charge:USD 220
3) SHENZHEN TO CHICAGO:
USD 45/CBM+CFS(USD 6/CBM)+DOC(USD 22)+CUSTOM CLEARANCE CHARGE AT DESTINATION PORT(USD 47)+AMS(USD 25)+DDC(USD 31/CBM)
So the charge according to the CBM.
In fact, the local custom clearance no matter 1 cbm,or 10 cbm,it still receive USD 220.
If you want to buy 1 bed,the CBM is about 1.5
the charge as follow:
USD 45X1.5+USD 6X1.5+USD 22+USD 47+USD 25+USD 31X1.5+USD 147+USD 220=
USD 584
—————————————————————————So the final cost to get a bed to Chicago is $584, which is twice the cost of the bed itself. Pretty interesting numbers.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetIt would be cool to hear about “failure” experiences that actually didn’t end up successes later on. Those are more interesting to your regular readers because we all know about the ones that ended up doing well for you.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetActually John, I know people that have gotten rich after they’ve worked to pay off all of their debt first. My point is that using sweeping generalizations just kills a teacher’s authority.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetJohn, I know what you’re getting at. You’re using teachings from Rich Dad, Poor Dad and other similar books. You think that Neil got it wrong in many ways, but I think you kill lessen your own authority when you starting using “absolute” ideas that create massive generalizations. “No one has ever gotten rich by paying off their debt” is a very large generalization. I know plenty of people who have paid off all of their debt and have multi-million dollar valuations. In fact, the book, The Millionaire Next Door, profiles a number of people who have paid off debt and have over $1m in assets.
To say that they think differently is probably true in many ways. To say every successful high net worth person thinks the opposite of someone that isn’t is extreme and makes your teaching have less authority.
Meanwhile, what’s the reason you’re shopping around Vancouver for multi-million dollar residential, single family homes?
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetBusinessX - I’m not sure where you’re getting your numbers. When the app first launched, it was $2.99, but only for 2-days. Then on Dec 4th, it dropped to $0.99. Apple takes 30% of the revenue, so here’s a more accurate financial breakdown:
12/12 - 75 units - $224.25 revenue, $156.98 profit, #70 entertainment
12/13 - 296 units - $885.04 revenue, $619.53 profit, #16 entertainment
12/14 - 841 units - $832.59 revenue, $582.81 profit, #76 overall, #8 entertainment
12/15 - 1510 units - $1,494.9 revenue, $1,046.43 profit, #39 overall, #5 entertainment
12/16 - 1797 units - $1,779.03 revenue, $1,245.32 profit, #22 overall, #3 entertainment
12/17 - 2836 units - $2,807.64 revenue, $1,965.35 profit. #15 overall, #3 entertainmentSo Joel Comm has made $5,616.42 in 6-days of sales.
It’s very common for iPhone app devs to drop their price to $0.99. And this isn’t the first public disclosure of sales information for an iPhone app. The first was for the app Where To? on taptaptap.com/blog/. A bunch of others have since been published.
Pangea Software is pocketing $5 million, which is more than the total amount of revenue of all 20-years of Mac game development ever.
Ge Wang of the Ocarina app has pushed over 400,000 downloads and expects to post income of $1m this year.
The developer of Trism made $250,000 in the first 2-months of sales.
MintApp’s Mint Nutrition app earned $1,900 in the first 12-days of sale when it was first release. At this time it was ranked in the top 800 apps on the App Store.
So anyway, there are a number of devs releasing their numbers. And the fad lately is to drop the price of your app down to $0.99 so that it reaches the high rank popularity, which in turn increases your sales numbers considerably.
Devs are still trying to figure out how to sustain their top ranks. One way is to purchase advertising on iPhone sites, like m.macupdate.com/iphone.php to help increase the visibility and push your App Store rank higher.
-joel mueller
http://www.macupdate.comThe app only costs $0.99 (unless Joel Comm recently changed the price
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetIt seems there are some major bugs on redfin.com using Safari on a Mac. I searched for “Traverse City Michigan” in the field. It returned no results. Now every time I type in “www.redfin.com” into Safari, it auto forwards to “www.redfin.com/search” telling me there are no results for “traverse city michigan#search_location”. I can’t go back to the front page, nor can I enter a new city within your “search areas,” basically making me stuck unless I manually choose a search area. Then that gives me access to the search field once again. Removing the cookies in Safari lets me perform a search again, but that’s really annoying.
Anyway, thanks for the article on TC.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetThere is a web-based interface that’s easier to scan because it has short descriptions for new additions. It doesn’t list all of the apps yet, but it’s a nice list because it helps pull a bunch of junk apps out:
http://m.macupdate.com/iphone.php
There is also an iPhone interface:
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetThe first section sounds a lot like the book, “Good to Great” by Jim Collins.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI live in the midwest, so I have no clue what “valleywag” even is, but if you’re taking toll, this post on TECHCRUNCH (what!!!????) reflects more on Duncan Riley than on Jason Calacanis. My vote is the work here by Duncan is a big thumbs down. Valleywag.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI love it! Makes me appreciate “crunch” as a company that recognizes they can be big, and pushes forward hard in doing so. Awesome and fun.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetDon’t use mediatemple for you domain name email hosting. Don’t use any virtual hosting provider. Use Google Apps - even the free version allows you to route your DNS to point mail.paulstamatiou.com to Google’s gmail services. Then you NEVER have to worry about spammers attacking your servers, and you get to use Gmails awesome webmail (or POP or iMAP).
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetThis is what Skribit is:
“Sorry, your browser does not allow 3rd party cookies. If you’d like to use Skribit, please enable 3rd party cookies.”
Ummmm, I have cookies enabled in Safari 3.