Thanks very much for the explanation. I do feel much better now.

I’m definitely in it for the long haul and I have many plans for future improvements for Ewe Stash.

Thanks,
John

I want you to know right now that I don’t want, and wouldn’t want a refund for the app. I think if I’m going to voice my opinion about your work, I should pay for the right to do so.

Please take all my comments with the best intentions. Though I may have gotten a little snarky, it was more to provoke discussion rather than for you to take it personally (but how could you not, it’s directed to your work).

It did spur a very good conversation on Ravelry (the iLove my iPhone group / See New App – Ewe Stash) that several other developers discussed larger issues with app development and sales. Highly recommended.

I hope that you take my thoughts, opinions and suggestions in the spirit in which they were written…to encourage an even better product so that can charge an even larger amount.

I have not deleted your app, nor do I intend too. I’ll be anxious to watch the updates and report on them.

Mike

I’m really sorry that you didn’t enjoy it, and had to spend your own money to review it. I usually give promo codes to anyone wanting to review my apps.

I thought about sending you $3 in the mail to the address I found in your whois contact info for the doubletrebble.net domain. (And one of my friends dared me to do it.) But I thought I’d check first, to make sure this would be ok. I can’t actually refund your credit card because Apple doesn’t give any customer financial information to developers.

You make a few fair observations in your review:

Ewe Stash stores some information that is redundant to the info in Ravelry. This is mainly because I’d written Ewe Stash for folks who might only own an iPod Touch and not have a Ravelry account (like me). Importing data from Ravelry should theoretically be possible, but I can’t say for certain since I don’t have an account there.

Image zooming, sorting by color, and having a wishlist are all good ideas for future updates. The wishlist in particular is a neat idea that I wish I’d thought of.

Having a separate in-app contacts database is something that I was going to do in the beginning, but after much thought and daily usage (about 3 weeks worth), I found that it was not a good idea. Also, creating a good re-implementation of the standard Contacts app is a non-trivial task.

Thanks for the review.

Best regards,
John