Big in Japan
This week CubeCheater officially became big in Japan. Kan Omi of ipodtouchlab.com wrote up a very generous review on his popular iPhone/iPod Touch site. It's quite extensive and even includes his own YouTube video:
His YouTube video has already been viewed 3,000 times, which is about 3 times more than mine has been viewed in a month.
On the first day the sales in Japan shot up from about 0 per day to 218, netting a cool 25,000 yen. CubeCheater is now #20 on the Top Paid Apps list in the Japanese App Store - and that's all apps, not just Utilities:
For comparison, in the U.S. App Store, it peaked at around #30 in Utilities, and never came close to making the Top list of all apps, which is dominated by games and fart apps.
Posted on January 17, 2009
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January 18th, 2009 - 20:36
i hope i can get big in japan by the end of the week. :/
January 20th, 2009 - 22:12
I appreciate the blast from the 80s via the “big in Japan” link. 🙂
January 21st, 2009 - 06:01
Cool! Any idea where Japan ranks in terms of Rubik Cube sales/consumption?
January 21st, 2009 - 22:44
I don’t know where they rank, but my guess would be pretty high? They seem to like Rubik’s cubes a lot, as far as I can tell from articles like this Wired post:
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/04/only-in-japan-p.html
January 22nd, 2009 - 07:02
WOW! Congratulations!
I don’t even want to know what a fart application is, though…really?
January 22nd, 2009 - 22:17
If you want to be, uh, exposed to the wonders of fart applications, search YouTube for “iFart” 🙂