WiFiPhoto has been on sale for 40 days now. Some frustrations, many satisfactions. In the beginning I didn’t know what to expect. Just after its release I discovered I had made a terrible mistake. When you submit an application to Apple you decide the release date. I chose to leave the submission date, 22nd August. WiFiPhoto went on sale on 4th September. I didn’t know I could change my release date: my app was buried amidst tons of other apps and it didn’t get any benefit from being just released. A hard lesson that I’ve definitely learned. I sent a quick press release to Macity one of the most popular Mac and iPhone related websites in Italy (perhaps the MOST popular. take a look at Alexa). My sales readily took off. In a week I had sold over 2,000 apps only in Italy. Japanese friends also gave me satisfaction: some bloggers made a good review and it helped a lot. Indeed I was primarily interested in USA but at first things were very difficult (even because of a misleading customer’s review).
I decided to release a new update implementing various features I was requested. This time I chose to promote my app via a PR on prMac. And I didn’t forget to change my release date as soon as it became available on the AppStore. Eventually I got some attention from american users. I reached #26 in US AppStore in Photography category. In the meantime I had conquered some visibility even on other foreign AppStores. By now I’ve sold more than 5,000 apps all around the world. That’s not my first job (luckily) and I’m quite happy.
Anyway I received my greatest satisfactions from customers and they’re by far more pleasant than any financial result. Now I’m ready for version 1.2 but in the meantime I’m enjoying WiFiPhoto among “Staff Picks” on US AppStore ! Apple always rewards you.
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Just wondering if this app can be used to send photos from iPhone to a WiFi Printer like the Wasabi from Dell? thanks.
Good question. I sincerely don’t know. If the printer can accept jpg files than it should work.
ho 1 problema con wifiphoto, funziona perfettamente, ma sul mio iphone esistono 4 cartelle di immagini, 1 rullino foto, 2 libreria foto, 3 100nikon, 4 101 nikon. con la vostra app. vedo solo la prima cioè rullino fotografico. come posso fare? speravo fosse possibile spostare le foto all’interno del telefono da una cartella all’altra, ma questo l’iphone non lo permette. aiuto!
Entri nelle Impostazioni (tasto “Ruota” in basso a destra), sotto Generale imposti Scegli sorgente. In questo modo potrà scegliere le foto o dal rullino fotografico o dagli album. Non può comunque spostarle tra una cartella e l’altra