While I don't doubt those who managed to test it, I'm yet to be able to simply USE it.

There's so many Apps on the store with such a sorry state, iDrink comes to mind, AllRadio too.

While I don't doubt those who managed to test it, I'm yet to be able to simply USE it.

There's so many Apps on the store with such a sorry state, iDrink comes to mind, AllRadio too.

I think this highlights ones of the biggest problems with the App Store. Here you have a game which was named the Puzzle Game of The Year by various publications and which everyone who has played it has enjoyed, and yet it's gone virtually unnoticed in the App Store. It was highlighted briefly with a small picture of its icon on the main page, but it certainly didn't get the full marketing muscle Apple gave some of the more "well-known" companies and so it kind of slipped through the cracks. I watched it linger near the bottom of the Top 100 paid downloads for awhile before it disappeared completely knowing that it was a direct result of its price. I'm very interested to see if this "temporary" price drop will boost its downloads just like I am sure Publisher X is.

One other point, have you noticed that the App Store hasn't exactly turned out like either Apple or anyone else expected in terms of which programs are popular? Clearly the free programs are MUCH, MUCH more popular than the paid (notice Units Convertor spending a day at the top of the charts after switching from free to paid and then disappearing completely) and the programs that are the most popular usually aren't the ones that got advertised. As I'm writing this, Aurora Feint sits at number 45 on the free downloads chart. This is a BEAUTIFUL game which everyone has raved about and which is much deeper than 90% of the paid games. And then I look at the top 10. Break Classic, Apache Lander, Peg Jump, Jawbreaker. I'm not trying to put these games down, I'm sure they are fun, but you can see just from their pictures how unpolished and basic they are. Besides which, I've never seen so much as a mention of any of these games anywhere. Where are people finding out about them?

I think this highlights ones of the biggest problems with the App Store. Here you have a game which was named the Puzzle Game of The Year by various publications and which everyone who has played it has enjoyed, and yet it's gone virtually unnoticed in the App Store. It was highlighted briefly with a small picture of its icon on the main page, but it certainly didn't get the full marketing muscle Apple gave some of the more "well-known" companies and so it kind of slipped through the cracks. I watched it linger near the bottom of the Top 100 paid downloads for awhile before it disappeared completely knowing that it was a direct result of its price. I'm very interested to see if this "temporary" price drop will boost its downloads just like I am sure Publisher X is.

One other point, have you noticed that the App Store hasn't exactly turned out like either Apple or anyone else expected in terms of which programs are popular? Clearly the free programs are MUCH, MUCH more popular than the paid (notice Units Convertor spending a day at the top of the charts after switching from free to paid and then disappearing completely) and the programs that are the most popular usually aren't the ones that got advertised. As I'm writing this, Aurora Feint sits at number 45 on the free downloads chart. This is a BEAUTIFUL game which everyone has raved about and which is much deeper than 90% of the paid games. And then I look at the top 10. Break Classic, Apache Lander, Peg Jump, Jawbreaker. I'm not trying to put these games down, I'm sure they are fun, but you can see just from their pictures how unpolished and basic they are. Besides which, I've never seen so much as a mention of any of these games anywhere. Where are people finding out about them?

A shame that some of the reviews say the game is hard to launch and often crashes back to the home screen - hopefully something they'll fix with an update.

A shame that some of the reviews say the game is hard to launch and often crashes back to the home screen - hopefully something they'll fix with an update.