May 072009
 

I don’t know what has been going on (actually, I do), but we have been seeing a statistically significant increase in the sales of iHappyBirthday. It wasn’t too long ago that we noticed that our application would not appear in the search results if the search terms were “happy birthday”, though it was still search-able … [READ THE FULL ARTICLE]

 Posted by at 1:29 pm
Feb 272009
 

We’ve received a couple of negative reviews due to the application crashing (which I explained in my previous post). I guess you can’t help that. But the good news is that we haven’t really heard of any more reports of it crashing after version 1.1.1 was published. A couple of days ago, the Lite version … [READ THE FULL ARTICLE]

 Posted by at 5:52 am
Feb 082009
 

Fix and a Solution Thank you to everyone who has purchased iHappyBirthday. Reaction to iHappyBirthday has been quite positive. However, we’ve been receiving reports of random crashes. We actually know why this happens. In a previous, unreleased version of iHappyBirthday, we displayed an alert message to the user telling him or her that the system … [READ THE FULL ARTICLE]

 Posted by at 8:53 am
Feb 052009
 

The update to version 1.1 of iHappyBirthday was rejected by Apple because the application did not meet the iPhone Human Interface Guidelines. The detailed reason for the rejection is because we do not display a checkmark next to a selection in our choose cake screen. Apple says that you must provide feedback to the user … [READ THE FULL ARTICLE]

 Posted by at 3:22 pm
Jan 272009
 

Why is it that it always takes longer than what you expected? I stayed up way past my bed time last night trying to get iHappyBirthday 1.1 out the door. We will also be doing a photoshoot of someone actually using the application as well as uploading a video to Youtube in the near future. … [READ THE FULL ARTICLE]

 Posted by at 8:44 am
Jan 232009
 

Our first iPhone application iHappyBirthday has been in the App store for a week now. The following are a few of my thoughts regarding this entire experience. On the day that our application appeared on the App store, we saw a competing product released on the exact same day! But we didn’t worry too much … [READ THE FULL ARTICLE]

 Posted by at 2:36 pm