I have a peculiar situation and I'm wondering if anyone is seeing the same thing.
The facts: - I have a paid app in the top 100 of the market that's been active since April 2009. - It sells regularly about 80/day. - I push a new version to the market every two weeks with new features. - The average rating is slowly creeping upward over time and is above 4.5 - For the longest time, my active install % was about 70% and increasing. That trend stopped a few months ago. It is now 54% and dropping about one percent every week. During the last stats "correction" a few weeks ago, it went from 64% to 60% pretty much overnight. Sales have only gotten better over time, and I don't see enough canceled orders to justify the drop in %. I have a hard time believing people would pay money for an app only to turn around and uninstall it. My app is actually quite small and non- intrusive so I can imagine no real incentive for these uninstalls. I'm receiving no user feedback about anything unusual. Is anyone else seeing this kind of trend in their app? The only explanation I can think of is this: Could old, decommissioned devices from early last year be triggering uninstalls from the perspective of the stats? If this is the case, it seems like it would be bad for your overall market rating to have had an app in production for so long (if active install % is part of the algorithm Google uses to determine ranking). Or, people really are just buying my app and discarding it like a cheap trinket! Or maybe I'm placing too much importance on what might be a meaningless number! Doug -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
