@John very interesting I have a few apps with several tens of thousands of downloads but now unpublished. But later I will republish them. That would give a lot of acceleration (depending how they calculate it)... Will report back when I republish!
On 16 July 2010 17:14, Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) <[email protected]>wrote: > (Pardon the continued hijack) > > From my analysis, the key metric in market position is acceleration, > not total downloads, comments or anything else. > > A good example is the new Fox app. It zoomed into the #2 slot in > overall popularity after two days on the market. Why? Acceleration. It > went from zero downloads/zero comments to 50,000 in one day (or > something like that). The acceleration from 0 to 50,000 put it in the > first spot. I've seen this happen many times. I was tracking apps and > their position for a while on a spreadsheet (http://maps.huge.info/ > blog/2009/12/android_market_app_movement.html) http://bit.ly/bpLaQ3 - > note how an app can come out of nowhere, swing to the top rating then > gradually slip back up? That's because the rate of download > acceleration leveled off and the app floated to its rightful place. > > Here's my take on market position factors: > Acceleration > Total downloads > active install percentage > rating count > rating > > User comments don't have an effect, good or bad. > > -John Coryat > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
