Aunty - good point about the 'a' entries. Actually only one of our licenses specifically requires that we use the 'a' and 'b' ones (and even that publisher would likely agree to change that requirement if we asked), the rest all just specify percentages of the total entries that could be available in the demo, so it's certainly feasible to switch to some more common words.
ipsi - including headwords for all entries would probably help a lot with this, especially if we did it with the ABC; you wouldn't get to read the definitions for the obscure words, but you'd get a good sense for the dictionary's vast vocabulary coverage at least.
On the Chinese-speakers-studying-English front, we decided long ago not to pursue that market and I see no reason to change that policy now; the profit margins are tiny on legitimate sales and piracy is rampant, and ultimately I think our narrow focus on people learning Chinese makes our software a lot better. Many of PlecoDict's most popular features, like super-flexible Pinyin input, timer-free handwriting recognition, and character magnification would hold little or no interest for a Chinese speaker learning English, and even in our choice of dictionaries the titles we've chosen all tend to be better for English speakers.
To create a product that would interest the Chinese-speaker-learning-English market we'd need a really good learner's E-C (like the Oxford Advanced), English-language audio samples and dozens if not hundreds of changes to the user interface to make it more Chinese-speaker-friendly, and even then we'd still be lagging behind Kingsoft, Besta et al in a lot of areas. So it just doesn't seem like a good use of our resources when there's so much growth potential among people learning Chinese.
