As a result of 100 days passed since the application was deleted from the App Store, sales increased

API documentation browser "DashThe application is provided for iOS and macOS. Until the beginning of October 2016, the app was delivered even at the App Store, but "Dash manipulated the review comments"The application was deemed deleted. After 100 days, the developer has released how the sales by Dash has changed.

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The following graph shows sales by the 2016 iOS version Dash application. Sales where Orange was sold via App Store, purple part sold applications directly from Dash's official website. It is from Q4 that the Dash application was deleted from the App Store, and you can see that sales through the App Store are decreasing at once. However, overall sales have rather increased slightly, and due to the lack of app distribution on the App Store, users who purchase directly from the official page have doubled.


It is thought that saturation of a toll upgrade is considered to be caused by the Q3 that the overall sales are falling. According to the developer, Dash seems to have not promoted any applications etc in 2016.

The original iOS version of the Dash application is not as smooth as earnings, and as with most iOS apps, it was "difficult to sustain". So I am using open source as iOS version of Dash application, and it seems to be using it for advertising more profitable mac OS version application.

Next is a graph showing the proportion of users. Orange is the percentage of users who are still using them even after the distribution on the App Store is stopped, purple is the proportion of users who switched the licenses from those via the App Store to those from the Dash after delivery stops. You can see that most existing users are "transit users". However, the following data is from "Dash 3" application user, "Developer said," I do not know what happened to the Dash 2 user ".


According to the developers, the iOS version of Dash will be released shortly after the distribution on the App Store is stoppedOpen sourceAfter that, it seems to be distributed soon on the App Store. However, the developer says, "It is strongly recommended not to install the Dash application distributed on the App Store because you do not know what changes have been made to the code," he says. The open source version of Dash that was distributed on the App Store has been charged, and it was deleted from the App Store afterwards.

Developers who decided to stop distributing applications on the App Store are "Installation · Update · PurchaseIt's great to be able to avoid the procedure of being able to take control of the application completely, and it is wonderful that I can completely control my application, "said the suspension on the App Store," There was little impact. "

Other developers are disclosing how the number of sales and sales of applications has changed as a result of stopping application distribution in the App Store for macOS.

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Rogue AmoebaAccording to the audio recorder application for Mac "Piezo"From 2016 so as not to distribute on the App Store, the number of sales changed as follows. The gray part is the number sold via the App Store and the blue part sold directly from the official website. The details of the number of sales are unknown, but it is obvious that there has been no big change.


Below is a graphical representation of Piezo's sales. The gray part is sales through the App Store, the blue part is direct sales from the official website. Piezo also got a slight increase in sales after stopping delivery on the App Store.


However, Rogue Amoeba, developer of Piezo, says, "Even if all developers stop distributing applications from the App Store, it is not possible to have the same success as Rogue Amoeba, "In our case it is clear that we were doing our best for Apple rather than working for us.When we removed Piezo from the App Store for Mac, We no longer have to pay a fee, and we can now improve the quality of our products greatly simplifying our work, "commented that" Increase in sales was nothing but a minus bonus " We have revealed that there were more gains available.