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Wolfe Herd: Founders should track app store reviews, not stock price
“So you can delete it off your phone. It's the wrong metric to focus on. Instead, you're much better off reading the App Store reviews. You're much better off reading the feedback from your customer, because the stock market is the wrong voting machine to be li…”
Tannen: Web gaming behavior shifted when App Store launched, not iPhone
“And people's Behaviors with games changed overnight. It was actually not when the iPhone came out. It was when the app store opened up.”
Simkhai: Grindr's early App Store reviews averaged one star
“Yeah, our app store ratings were, you know, one star. We had Horrible reviews, and .”
Citron: Platform launches offer outsized distribution opportunities for new gaming studios
“Whenever a new video game console launches, that's the opportunity for a new video game studio to get started. Because There aren't 200 games available. Like, you know, when the PlayStation three claims that comes out or, you know, one of these new systems, it…”
Citron: Aurora Feint was among the first 50 App Store titles
“We were one of the first 50 titles on the App Store, and I remember thinking, like, if we get a thousand players in the first, you know, week, that would be incredible, and we got a thousand in the first hour, and I was like, oh, this is something.”
Yelp had a native app ready on day one of the App Store
“So we actually had a, an app ready to go day one when the app store opened.”
Citron: Aurora Feint's paid launch generated $30K before rapidly declining
“I think we covered our spend for maybe one month when we launched the eight dollar version. I think we made like 30,000 dollars on it, and then the next month we made like 15,000 dollars, and the next month we made like 7000 dollars”