Haven't checked recently but for a while Flurry was (for some reason) reporting Chinese users as Australian.
On 28 August 2010 15:40, gosh <steve...@unimelb.edu.au> wrote: > 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<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > 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. 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