True. But the problem with the recruiter still exists because they just need to give you candidates consider. There may be recruiters that do a better job at qualifying their candidates, but the paradigm is still the same.
Another thing to consider is making adjustments to the price at various intervals. We have seen huge spikes in downloads when we move from $.99 to free and then back. I think the main factor in the download spikes comes from the app showing up on the automated lists of "bargin" apps. I am trying to get some more concrete evidence of this, so if anyone has more examples, I would love to hear about it.
We built OTA sync using Google App Engine for Appigo. Check out https://appigotodo.appspot.com for more info. We have sync'd millions of tasks since our launch in October. It wasn't a trivial development task, but it definitely didn't take us 2 years.
There is a fundamental difference in the way CC is approaching sync. They are trying to sync by moving the actual database around instead of using a protocol based service. They must have some reason for why they need to move the actual database file around but I don't know what that is.