By David Sims, TMCnet Contributing Editor
App Store developers, you’ve wanted a way to keep an eye on your sales stats? Guess what – you’re in luck.
As PCWorld reports, Apple (News – Alert) has released an app for that. The iTunes Connect Mobile puts iTunes Connect, Apple’s back-end portal for the App Store, “in developers’ pockets. Daily and weekly data on sales and trends is available for both paid and free apps, as well as in-app purchases.”
There you go. Happy now?
You’ll be forgiven for missing the news, though. As Softpedia says, it’s strange that “Apple does not document the release of its iTunes Connect Mobile app on the News and Announcements section of its iPhone (News – Alert) Dev Center. Yet, the application is available from the iTunes App Store for the iPhone, iPod touch and the iPad.”
As one might expect from Apple, iTunes Connect Mobile seems to be well-designed, PCWorld says, adding that “it seems a bit odd that this is an iPhone-only app; iPad owners will just have to make due with the 2x button for scaling up iPhone apps, or perhaps consider purchasing an iPhone or iPod touch.”
IntoMobile remarked that the move “comes at an interesting time for Apple, as its iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad have been selling like hot cakes and the success of the App Store has been a tremendous success.”
In fact, they say, “during the unveiling of the iPhone 4 Monday, Steve Jobs (News – Alert) was eager to note that the over-the-air app store has already seen 5 billion downloads and the company has paid out over $1 billion to developers. This could take off even further, as the iOS 4 potentially enables more useful apps with the use of background processing.”
And it’s already at Version 1.0.1, as Softpedia notes: “The application hasn’t been out for long and Apple has already issued an update to correct an issue preventing some accounts from logging in to the app.”
David Sims is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of David’s articles, please visit his columnist page. He also blogs for TMCnet here.
Edited by Marisa Torrieri
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