Real-Time App Sales

That would be nice but I couldn't imagine the system strain from so many people watching all day every day. I like to think of the Apple daily reports as my morning surprise!

 

Would be cool to have an app or desktop application that got push notifications whenever you got a sale. It could play a little cha-ching sound for each copy sold!

 

I too like the morning surprise of checking... or did when my game was selling!

Although its almost painful now to see sales in other countries cause I know I'll probably never see that cash. I have about a hundred bucks in a few other countries, but they haven't hit the $150 threshold, and may not for a very long time. So far I'm only get dough from the US store.

 

I've heard of devs who become fascinated of their data and make it religion to check the handful of sales each day… wondering over a -10% & +5% disparity between days. Why do they do this? …Maybe they're looking each day, like lottery numbers, hoping for the jackpot.

I suppose Apple could provide realtime functionality for those devs. I'm sure the reason they haven't is they never thought anyone would need it. It makes no sense from a business point of view to check data any more frequently than daily, and even that's excessive. Weekly data is sufficient for seeing marketing results. You don't think publishers get the sales data from DS or PSP game sales on a daily basis, do you?

 

it'd be just like the stock market, but people would rely on it, and there would be very low consistency.

 

We have real-time stats for our online games They are really necessary for doing efficient advertising, I think some stats-tracking libraries also provide you with that data, as long as people are connected to WiFi/Edge/3G when starting their game.