Although I was already happy with how Chromocam has done so far, I got a nice ray of sunshine through my office window when I opened up iTunes Connect one sleepy morning and saw 20x the usual amount of downloads for Chromocam Dots. Now, I did some quick googling, checked search.twitter.com, and didn’t see much. I actually figured it was a bug in iTunes reporting, especially since they had some weird warning messages about outages and errors in reporting on the top of the screen.

So I checked the next day… and even more downloads! :) Now I know something is up, so I did some more research and saw some great reviews, especially from CreativeApplications.Net and Pocket Plastic. So, I’m thinking that my traffic is coming from there. By the way, I definitely need to do a future blog entry on payola and improper practices by some shady blog owners… anyway, know that creative applications and pocket plastic are amazing journalists and curators and I highly recommend adding them to your RSS reader.

I just happened to then check iTunes, looking for reviews and ratings and things like that, and what do I see? Chromocam Dots is featured right on the front page!!!! :O Apple staff thinks I’m New and Noteworthy! What an honor :). For all the marketing, design, and development I did myself, it really felt great to know that people who look at apps all day, every day, thought that mine was worth something. I don’t really care about the 99c price point, I don’t make a ton of money off Chromocam or anything, but being selected for this curation, sharing space with amazing, revolutionary software like Gravilux, and Circuit Synth. It’s definitely a nice feeling, and I’m feeling very happy of my choice to go with iPhone development. I’ve been wavering lately, with the EVO 4G coming out, but I think I’ll stay with iPhone for the forseeable future… or until Chromocam Cubes gets rejected. ;)