{"id":6945,"date":"2013-02-06T22:11:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T03:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6945"},"modified":"2013-02-06T22:11:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T03:11:59","slug":"random-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/06\/random-observations\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Observations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shapeof.com\/archives\/2013\/2\/some_random_observations_on_voodoopad__acorn__mas_sales__direct_sales__and_customer_love_notes.html\">Gus Mueller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/shapeof.com\/archives\/2013\/2\/some_random_observations_on_voodoopad__acorn__mas_sales__direct_sales__and_customer_love_notes.html\"><p>Here&rsquo;s the other random observation&mdash;Mac App Store sales of VoodooPad and Acorn have been going down over the past couple of months, but direct sales have been going up. And I don&rsquo;t know why. It&rsquo;s the same price, and previously the trend had been in the opposite direction, but&#8230;well there it is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;m seeing the same thing with DropDMG and EagleFiler. Overall sales are up, but sales via the Mac App Store are much lower (both percentagewise and in absolute terms), even though the apps now have more good ratings and reviews.<\/p>\n<p>And, <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/12\/snow-leopard-hanging-around\/\">like me<\/a>, he&rsquo;s seeing lots of customers continuing to use Snow Leopard.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gus Mueller: Here&rsquo;s the other random observation&mdash;Mac App Store sales of VoodooPad and Acorn have been going down over the past couple of months, but direct sales have been going up. And I don&rsquo;t know why. It&rsquo;s the same price, and previously the trend had been in the opposite direction, but&#8230;well there it is. I&rsquo;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,39,210,17],"class_list":["post-6945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macappstore","tag-snowleopard","tag-mountainlion"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6946,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945\/revisions\/6946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}