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Several developers have recently shared information about their sales, including the company behind Saved, a budget tracker for the iPhone.

While Saved’s numbers are far smaller than some recently shared figures, Allen Ding’s bit about the first version of app jumped out at me:

Just one problem. We just didn’t make any money. The conversions sucked. The app sucked. The business model sucked. I don’t really know. And I was still answering all these support emails. In multiple languages. I tried everything. Hundreds of emails to friends. Display Ads. More Ads. Sponsorships. But nope. Nada. There just wasn’t any traction.

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Mind-blowing stuff.

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With Amazon Prime on sale today for just $72, I realized just how much the service has been in the news recently, and how hard it can be to explain to someone just what Prime is.

The core of Amazon Prime is made up of five features:

• Fast shipping
• Prime Instant Video movie and TV streaming service
• Prime Music with unlimited streaming and cloud storage
• Prime Photos - Amazon’s cloud photo management solution
• Kindle Owner’s Lending Library - Access to 50,000 Kindle books available for free rent

The list of five above isn’t everything that comes with a Prime membership. There’s also Amazon Lightning Deals, Prime Pantry, Amazon Elements and more.

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Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Joe Caiati. Joe works as an IT professional in New York City. He maintains a weblog called dot info and calls Twitter his second home.

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Apple has gone through a cultural change. Yosemite and iOS 8’s tight integration was a large indicator of that. When Forstall and Browett were ousted, Apple promised an increase in collaboration throughout its teams. Many didn’t know exactly what that was going to be, but it’s become clear that Tim Cook wants less compartmentalization and more interactivity between all Apple channels – including retail.

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If you don’t get goosebumps watching Bill Gates discuss the next decade and a half of world-changing improvements his foundation is planning, you aren’t hooked up right.

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Over on The Sweet Setup, Steve Owens picks the best app for sharing tasks with others.

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I missed last night’s show, but I’m glad Federico and Myke outlined my future so clearly for me before moving onto topics:

This week Federico and Myke talk about Windows 10, Windows Holographic and unsubscribing from web services.

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Today’s Microsoft’s keynote was packed full of announcements, from previews of Windows 10 and a post-IE browser to Xbox improvements and a virtual reality headset.

Really.

Like many who have been in the Apple camp for a long time, my natural tendency to dismiss Microsoft as old and boring, reserved for people stuck in the enterprise, but the truth is that Redmond is more relevant than they have been in years, and today’s event proves it in several ways.

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The White House:

For the first time, the White House is making the full text of the speech available to citizens around the country online. On Medium, you can follow along with the speech as you watch in real time, view charts and infographics on key areas, tweet favorite lines, and leave notes. By making the text available to the public in advance, the White House is continuing efforts to reach a wide online audience and give people a range of ways to consume the speech.

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Sometimes, a tool is announced that seems like magic. Audio Hijack 3 lands squarely in this category.

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App Store sales figures are higher than ever. In the first week of 2015 alone, iPhone and iPad users spent nearly $500 million on apps. And that’s not surprising given how easy it is to drop money on the top paid apps. Wouldn’t it be great if a service existed to help you save money in the App Store?

Enter Apple Sliced. Apple Sliced is a free web service that aims to be the ultimate App Store companion. App prices fluctuate at a surprising rate (25% of paid apps had free sales last year), so we track these changes to help you save money. You can sort through the day’s top price drops and sales, find buying advice based on past price changes, and set alerts to receive notifications whenever an app you want goes on sale.

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