mariachimike - yeah, the prices do seem to be higher for Euro users - unfortunately there's no way for us to set them independently, we just pick a "price tier" and that automatically corresponds to a specific Apple-defined USD / CAD / EUR / AUD / NZD / JPY / etc price. But hopefully Apple will decide to adjust those exchange rates from time to time to keep things more even. (they'll need to give some advance notice, though, so that firms that get most of their sales in Euro can keep their prices from being spontaneously lowered)
zebigbos22 - we actually introduced that radical change in 2.0.3 on Palm/WM; basically the default behavior now is that if you tap on the simplified/traditional version of a radical that has both, it'll only show you characters in the matching set. You can disable that and show both character sets by going to Settings / Panels / Radical and disabling the "Character set filter" option.
numble - we haven't extended our Oxford license to iPhone yet; it's very expensive and we think we might be better off putting that money to some other new licenses. Could you expand a bit on your bundle purchases question? I'm not quite sure if I understand it - are you asking what happens if you buy a dictionary bundle on iPhone, then buy an additional dictionary on top of that?
gato - no, the way the agreements are worded that unfortunately wouldn't work - wouldn't technically be a "free platform transfer" in that case.
tonyblum1343 - Thanks!
We wouldn't be changing pricing, we'd just be hiding educational discounts unless people contacted us to request them / provide proof of educational affiliation. But given the number of people who've specifically thanked us for offering educational discounts (not something you're likely to do if you're lying about your educational status) I'm inclined to think we just have an extremely teacher/student-intensive customer base.
With CC-CEDICT, there are a couple of reasons we don't want to have that installed by default. One of them is that we think it's an excellent way to familiarize people with the registration / file download process; in order to download CC-CEDICT you need to a) find the Settings tab, b) register, c) find the Add-ons tab, d) see the list of Paid add-ons, and e) switch to the Free add-ons list, f) download CC-CEDICT, and g) see how smooth / easy that download is.
Besides that, though, we're probably going to be updating CC-CEDICT more often than we update the main software (since every time we do that we have to go through Apple's review process again), so making it a separate download means people start off with the latest version of CC-CEDICT. Related to that, if we embed CC-CEDICT in the application bundle then there's no way for us to delete it and free up that extra disk space when they replace it; we can disable the version in the application bundle in favor of an updated version, but the old version will still be sitting around taking up space.
Thanks for the iPhone category suggestion, I've now done exactly that. Though I'm wondering whether we now need a third forum for Pleco-wide things, feature suggestions and such... I suppose most of those are still going to be platform-specific, though, at least until we've got flashcards implemented on iPhone.
radioman - it'll almost certainly be a free upgrade for anyone who bought a bundle, yes; I can't make that an official policy yet since there's the small possibility we might end up licensing something for the flashcard system for which we'd have to pay per-copy royalties, but that's pretty unlikely, and if it did happen we'd probably make that another module alongside the basic flashcard one.
mphughes - thanks! We were really happy with how the reader turned out - in hindsight it might have been better to do flashcards first and the reader second, but then we wouldn't have had the embedded reader in dictionary entries either, and I think that singlehandedly makes the 21C / Guifan dictionaries accessible to a much larger number of people than they would be otherwise (the main reason why 21C is part of the iPhone Professional bundle but not the Palm/WM one).
kenianbei - great! Does Live Mode seem relatively stable (not too many crashes)? Are you on a 3G or a 3GS?