Ilium Software Blog

We’re Not Being Cagey

July 9, 2008 by Ellen

We’re not trying to be cagey with iPhone info about our apps – there still are a lot of unknowns. We hope we’ll have eWallet in the iPhone App store Friday, but we haven’t yet seen confirmation of that. We want to send reviewers copies as soon as we can, but we’re not quite sure when the mechanisms will be in place. We’re not sure if we’ll have a way to give existing users a discount on the iPhone purchases, but we do have a plan in place to be sure they’re taken care of.

Sorry! We wish we had more definite info as much as anyone does! It all looks very exciting from the previews (here’s one), but we’re still a little in the dark.

And, on a non-iPhone topic, today’s funniest mobile-related headine was: Former Virgin And NBC Exec Turns VC. MocoNews is my favorite source for info, Tricia Duryee’s articles are great, and I know what the headline meant, but maybe “Former NBC and Virgin Exec” would have been a better choice.

eWallet for iPhone Sneak Preview…

July 1, 2008 by Marc

With the (predicted) AppStore release date swiftly approaching, I wanted to take a second to give you a sneak peak at eWallet for iPhone. I am extremely excited about this application. It looks great, it’s easy to use, and while we’ve captured the iPhone feel it is in every way the eWallet software you’ve come to know and love.

Of course this will generate the usual question:

“When will it be released?”

We hope to see it available in the AppStore around the time that the AppStore goes live but we don’t know exactly when eWallet will be available. First, as far as I understand it, no one is 100% sure when the AppStore will go live. Second, we don’t have control over the process used to post applications. We send Apple the application, they look it over, decide if it is “fit for the AppStore” and then put the application out there for the public. This whole process happens according to Apple’s timetable.

What I can tell you is that we have a finished product (I’ve been using it on my own iPhone for some time now) and we’re ready to roll as soon as Apple gives us the go ahead! So watch this space! We’ll definitely make some noise the minute the software is available!

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We Now Return to Your Regularly Scheduled Blog Contest

July 1, 2008 by Julie

Some of you may have noticed that we haven’t run our usual monthly blog contest since May. Of course, many of you probably didn’t mind, since the reason we skipped a month was due to our 11th anniversary in June. Instead of picking one winner, we picked something like 30. (Really, I’m not going to go back and count, but I’m sure you’ll agree that there were a lot of happy people on this blog last month.)

But no birthday celebration can last forever, and we now return you to your regular contest. I was interested to see if the name I pulled out of the hat would be from one of our anniversary contest winners…but it wasn’t. Then I thought, certainly it’ll at least be from one of the anniversary contest posts – after all, there were so many. Wrong again. For June, the lucky winner is Dave L, for commenting on the post The Revolutionary iPhone App Store. Congratulations! I just sent you an email explaining how to get your prize. If you don’t receive it, reply to this post and let me know.

So there you have it, folks. All it takes is leaving a comment, and you never know what might happen. Be sure to stay tuned to our blog, because not only will you be the first to hear about all of our exciting news – you could win a prize too!

The Revolutionary iPhone App Store

June 24, 2008 by Ellen

More and more of the analysts and commentators are starting to ~~realize~~ predict that the coming iPhone Application Store will be as revolutionary for third-party software sales as the iPhone has been for smartphones.

Despite the analysts’ bad track record for mobile market predictions in general, I think they’re right about this one. There will be a huge advantage to having the App Store on the device, supported by the maker of the device and the OS.

Microsoft and Palm have been missing this for years. They’ve relied completely on third-party stores. There’s been no major advertising of the availability of software for Palm or Windows Mobile phones. There’s been very little promotional activity, and not much effort to raise users’ awareness of the fact that they can buy software.

Apple’s already changed this, and the store’s still 3 weeks away. [Read more…] about The Revolutionary iPhone App Store

Secure Info Managers go Head to Head. eWallet Wins!

June 20, 2008 by Ellen

PDA Essentials Smartphone and GPS Magazine held a Head to Head comparison of Secure Information Managers in their recent issue (Issue 75), and I’m delighted to say that eWallet won!

eWallet was rated 10 out of 10 and awarded the Editor’s Choice Award, coming out ahead of Spb Wallet, Handy Safe and CodeWallet. The competition was tough, but we’re not surprised that when the smoke cleared, eWallet was rated the best.

I don’t think that PDA Essentials puts their articles online, or I’d be linking to it, but I’m going to look into whether we can buy online reprint rights (there’s got to be a better term for that) and put a copy on our site.

Many thanks, editors and judges!

How low are your expectations?

June 10, 2008 by Lee

Last week we had a glitch with our anniversary discount for users wanting to pay with PayPal, and with everything going on, it took us a little while to notice. We were shocked at how many orders this affected, especially when we realized that exactly two people told us about it.

I know that when I run across a problem, especially when ordering something online, I try to at least email someone at the company to let them know. But, then again, by nature I am a “fixer”. (I guess my job in Support is a natural fit, eh?) The results of my contact with companies are pretty much a mixed bag, everything from no response at all, to the occasional automated reply that has nothing to do with my original email, but more often I’ll get a real response from someone who is at least trying to correct the problem.

Overall, do you expect a low level of service or response? Or is it that you feel it’s pointless to complain? We really try to do better than that, and I hope we are succeeding.

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