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httpwatch··on 7 Reasons our app costs $99.99
The app store is optimized for mass appeal apps. It only shows reviews for the latest version in your country's app store. The HttpWatch app has had a reasonable number of reviews but it is a relatively niche app.

Getting app reviews is very hard unless you have hundreds of thousands of downloads. This post suggests that only 10% of all apps have one or more reviews:

http://blog.appfigures.com/a-deep-dive-into-app-store-review...

httpwatch··on 7 Reasons our app costs $99.99
Australia has been one of our best markets for the app. Perhaps a 3 digit price is better :)

Does the Australia app store include VAT (or equivalent) that can be claimed back by businesses?

httpwatch··on Google Has Given HTTPS a Huge Boost
We originally setup HTTPS on the Wordpress blog just to demonstrate how it could be done without mixed content warnings. However, we never setup an SSL CDN so all the content is served directly for HTTPS but uses a CDN for some content over HTTP.

Looks like this will have to change now that all traffic from Google searches is going to come in over HTTPS.

httpwatch··on Google Has Given HTTPS a Huge Boost
It looks like some people are getting carried away with the SEO implications of this.

We're not implying that your site will get ranked higher than other sites if you have HTTPS. What we're saying is that if your site has both HTTP and HTTPS versions of the same content that Google will now return an HTTPS link. The biggest implication is that if you support HTTPS most of traffic will now be using HTTPS rather than HTTP.

httpwatch··on Google Has Given HTTPS a Huge Boost
Sorry, for the poor response of the blog. We still had a connection monitoring tool running that got swamped by the hacker news link.

The link should work fine now.