Looking at your numbers again, your 'total installs' for Australia seem way out-of-whack with the rest of the countries listed, i.e.:
* Take the UK versus Australia figures, your total installs are: UK= 335, Australia=321 * There are about 60 million people in the UK, and only 22 million in Australia. Both countries speak a form of English as their primary language, discounting the disproportionate uptake as a UI issue in your app. * Google has allowed app sales and app purchases in both the UK and the US before all other countries globally (Feb 2009). It has allowed 'purchases' in Australia only since Oct'2009, and still doesn't allow 'sales' today. * Google has had multiple Android developer/code/lab-days in the UK (i.e. platform evangelism and market building momentum), while the closest they ever got to Australia with one was Singapore (which is not very close)… i.e. Google is Australia-averse. In fact, southern hemisphere averse. For a company that sells globes and maps, it doesn't seem to be able to peer over its own equators. Its much more likely that Google will allow app sales from Afghanistan before they do so in Australia. Android numbers in Australia reflect that Google apathy. * Google and the Android-brand have been totally 'unfocused'/blurred wrt Australia as a market … the only place you see 'Google' in Australia, is in a browser window. If you phone them, you don't get past the front-desk staff. If you email them, nothing comes back. If your write to them, nothing gets returned. It all disappears into a big white rectangle. It reminds me of the public service in the 1980s, before office PC productivity. They process all their accounting/sales data and dollars from Australia through their Ireland office… while its true that the Australian population was once 75% Irish, that was a long time ago (in the early 1800s). * Telstra, the major Australian telco (previously, a government-owned monopoly, still with nation-wide mobile coverage), only started selling an Android phone in April 2010 - just a few months ago. Vodafone Aust. Ltd. has sold one for a while longer - but they are a much much smaller company, with much less coverage nationally, and they only sell it via high-end phone plans. * I'm yet to meet (or even see) a person on the street (outside the IT world) that actually has an Android phone. In summary, both your published piracy rate for Australia, and also your actual 'total number of installs' for Australia, are 'far from representative' IMHO. I suggest to you that there is something very odd going on there with your app installs (supposedly) coming from Australia? Cheers Steve On Aug 27, 7:15 am, keyeslabs <keyes...@gmail.com> wrote: > Actually, the largest *contributor* to piracy was the US, but the > highest piracy rates (as a percentage of total installs) were > elsewhere. For example, the US has a piracy rate (on my app) of about > 70%, but Australia is more like 92%. For the countries where apps may > be purchased, here's the breakdown: > > Country Purchases Installs Pirated Installs Piracy Rate > Australia 26 321 295 92% > Austria 6 13 7 54% > Canada 25 96 71 74% > France 23 104 81 78% > Germany 38 161 123 76% > Italy 4 36 32 89% > Japan 467 467 0 0% > Netherlands 24 98 74 76% > New Zealand 4 8 4 50% > Spain 7 63 56 89% > Switzerland 7 21 14 67% > United Kingdom 108 335 227 68% > United States 2051 6105 4054 66% > > The US isn't the highest, but still, it's disturbing how high the rate > is in ALL of these countries where purchases could be made... > > Dave > > On Aug 26, 4:59 pm, niko20 <nikolatesl...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > Excellent analysis. Once again showing that you can't make assumptions > > about a market without cold hard data to back it up. Your results > > found that the largest piracy rates actually occurred in countries > > where users COULD buy apps ! I guess USA is just a bunch of cheap > > *sses :) > > > -niko > > > On Aug 26, 3:22 pm, keyeslabs <keyes...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Recently did an analysis of piracy rates by country for my app. Found > > > some very interesting tidbits that I think may be of interest to > > > members of this group: http://bit.ly/bSaoBe > > > > Dave -- 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
