Pocket Informant is one of the best personal information manager for the Iphone. We have a pleasure to meet up with its developer and the following are the questions asked for this app. We hope we have a chance to review this app on this site soon!
Interview Questions and Replies:
1. What excites you as the developer during the making of this application?
For one thing I love working on my Mac. Anything that lets me work on my Mac is a great thing. So using Xcode and my iPhone to build great new things excites me!
2. What features of your app do you think win over the other similar apps on the app store?
The interface, the integration of events and tasks. The customer support.
3. How long did it take you to make this app?
Too long. Unfortunately, people don’t realize how much work there is in building a proper calendar.
4. Will there be a price increase/decrease of your app in future? Do you think your app is priced competitively among apps that is similar to yours in nature?
We think its priced very competitively. OmniFocus is $19. Things and other apps like it are $10. We do more and I think better. We have a plan designed from eight years of working on mobile devices and doing calendaring and tasks and contacts and notes and all of that together that the value proposition is immense.
As for a price increase – at some point when the feature set allows, we plan to bring it up slightly.
5. Are there features you wish you could deliver in your Pocket Informant app but was restricted by the apple sdk? Do most users understand these limitations or do they insist you should have this feature even though it cannot be done by current Apple SDK?
Alarms. Synchronizing with the built-in calendar. That’s really it really.
6. What kind of updates can users expect from future releases of Pocket Informant?
Performance. Better Synchronizing . Outlook Synchronizing . Mac desktop Synchronizing . Drag and drop. More integration with calendaring and tasks. Conversion between the two. Contacts support. Landscape support. So much more.
7. If you are to choose to deliver value (functionality – more features) versus price (lower/increase price), which will you think attract more users to your app?
Functionality. And not functionality in the bloated sense of 50 buttons onscreen. But real functionality in an interface that makes it easy.
8. Do you think pirated jailbroken versions of Pocket Informant will hurt your sales? What kind of effective actions do you think Apple should help developers like yourself to prevent piracy?
I do, but not enough to go cry about it 🙂 I think Apple should improve the DRM, but more importantly offer real trials.
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