This article/blog post is wrong. None of the reasons listed had anything to do with his app store success.
Word of mouth was there: and it was 'don't bother'. If it's an app or game that people have to have, most of these techniques would have yielded different results.
Except for a few: like submitting to websites for review... most of them are looking for cash for reviews, so you get what you pay for.
I haven't seen any games that topped the list that were not worthy of chart-toppers... If games or apps like this were chart-toppers, then the chart wouldn't be worth much.
Word of mouth was there: and it was 'don't bother'. If it's an app or game that people have to have, most of these techniques would have yielded different results.
Except for a few: like submitting to websites for review... most of them are looking for cash for reviews, so you get what you pay for.
I haven't seen any games that topped the list that were not worthy of chart-toppers... If games or apps like this were chart-toppers, then the chart wouldn't be worth much.