So, Strip Designer managed to squeeze into a couple of more top 100s around the world. Yesterday it was on top 100 in Portugal and at the time of writing it is number 100 in Australia. I don't know what the sales numbers are, but Portugal went so quickly that I don't think they are particular impressive. Australia should be around 50-100/day. I have increased the price now after the Sunday+Monday sale, so I expect the rank to drop quickly now.

I noticed that Apple selected about 30 apps for a "Creative Kit" promotion on the app store. Strip Designer was among them and this explains the most recent surge. I was looking for 4-5 days for a cause of the surge, before I stumbled over the Creative Kit on the app store. It is kind of funny that I don't get any notice from Apple, but only see a surge in sales numbers, and later notice that the apps are featured by accident.

Meahwhile... it is time to submit the iPad version of Strip Designer with the GM build of iPhone OS 3.2. I was struggling to get everything ready for the first review this Saturday. I had to cut a lot of things from the release. For instance, I decided to drop undo/redo because I didn't have time to test it thoroughly. I literally only removed the undo and redo buttons.

Hopefully, this version will make it onto the app store for iPad launch. Let's see. I'll reenable some of the dropped functionality in the first update after the iPad has launched.

Update: Strip Designer is currently no. 58 in Australia. Yesterday's sales: 35, but there must be some more today. In Japan we needed more than 200 sales to get on the top 100, so it seems like Australia is a significantly smaller market. In fact, we sold more in Germany while only being no. 8 in Photography.

Update2: Ah, I see. SD is now featured under New and Noteworthy in Australia. It isn't really new so perhaps "and" really means "or". This is great!