Any updates on pre sale? Also i think promotion is very important

Stylish account setup. It can't be simpler than this . Any news on the sale yet?

    

LIVE AMA w/ Gems + Koinify!

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2ltas9/we_are_gems_koinify_were_launching_gems_crowd/

We aim to release the iOS beta App November 30th. Some of the users that signed up for Gems updates will receive an early invite to the beta.
Alpha version iOS App will support instant messaging, push notifications, new user registration and login, contact directory and display the GEMS wallet. Release server backend which supports both the cloud instant messaging and counterparty integration.

Don't know if the ama is clos4ed or not but there were a couple questions asked which i will repeat here

- Will gems be tradable on exchanges?
- Is the main wallet the app wallet or does it also have a desktop wallet?
- You said first day 15k gems and last day 10k gems for buyers, does the amount gets lower daily from the first day or does 15k gems stay for a period?
- And since an Android wallet is coming up i guess it's possible for Blackberry users to use it aswell since with Blackberry you can side load Android apps with a SNAP. I will try it out with my Blackberry.

Thanks, is Melotic and exchange website or something else?

Also is gems main wallet going to be just in the app itself or will there be a desktop app available?

the price is too expensive.

I have heard you say this (quote below) a couple of times, it concerns me that you are suggesting that the coins are not meant as an actual currency but only an in app advertising token. I'm guessing this is to tread carefully in regulatory environment but people should know they might never be able to use these coins outside the app to actually buy something basically?

If so you should be clear this is a closed system ultimately. Its not going to be attractive to users if they are told they can't actually buy anything at all with the gems. Therefore the main motivation to use this particular app disappears. And  can't imagine teenage girls trading the coins for Bitcoin on exchanges and then using BTC anytime soon.

"Gems are a product designed to be used to advertise on the Gems network. Until we have finished building the application and the advertising functionality Gems are still inherently tradable between users since this is a core functionality of the blockchain technology. The only reason you should be purchasing Gems is to use as an advertising credit in the future or in order to support the Gems application development."



The problem is the value of Gems is not based on the use as a currency but only as an advertisement payment. So even if you were get to have a few million users its not like Bitcoin where they are currency holders but the value is based on what advertisers will pay to connect to those million users. Which is a lot lot lot less than people think. Imagine a popular blog gets a million viewers, doesn't mean an advertisers ie Google ads will bring much revenue for the blog, some but its not much. Plus chat apps are not the best place for advertising anyway.