Effects of Translating an iPhone App - Charts And Graphs, Breakdown by Countries

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19 points·andrewljohnson··7 comments

I know this data is a bit stale, so if anyone has questions, I'll try and answer them.

We're pretty open with our sales data, so ask whatever you want.

In the PDF it said you didn't notice a change in sales in Belgium. I looked up Gaia GPS in the app store, and the description is still in English...

Perhaps you didn't do a translation into Dutch, and only the French speaking part of the country is seeing the translation?

Oh wait, the Netherlands is in the 'improved most' category. Ok, so I guess your translation is just not enabled in (at least the Flemish part of) Belgium.

Andrew,

this is cool but the graphs are all spikey; you should probably use either a histogram or a line graph that connects the actual numbers.

By the way, is there a Japanese translation?

There is no Japanese translation yet... still looking for a translator. I understand that market is a big one too!

As for the graphs... not much I can do. I just did screen grabs from AppViz. The spike down to zero after each day is a bug too :(

I really should regrab these graphs and repost with the latest numbers. They are more interesting now.

Cool, thanks for posting. Given how money you make you might s well pay a professional translator for Japanese - you will be pleasantly surprised.

If it's public information, how much did you pay per string in one language?

When I first posted the job, I offered $7.00 for what amounted to about 200 words. I later decreased the offer to $5.00 and it seemed to work just as well. I bet even $3-4 would work OK.

I offered people the same amount to edit someone else's translation.

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