My paid app which has over 2000 downloads had never had a rating below 4 until the last couple of days and has since received two 1-star reviews.
>From what I can gather those 1-star ratings are from users who discovered technical issues after the 15 minute window had expired. Before, both those scenarios would have probably resulted in an uninstall-with-refund which is much preferable to a 1-star rating (for both user and dev) :( I think we can expect to see paid app ratings decrease significantly as more and more users are stuck with apps they don't want (or don't work) and were not able to refund within the new time window. I've also seen a big decrease in sales and I don't think this is related to the 1-star ratings (because I have enough other ratings so the average is not really impacted, and the 1-star ratings did not leave comments). Note - it's been over a month since I last updated the app. On 19 December 2010 16:59, JonFHancock <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting. My saday and rank have remained steady. I have seen a > sharp drop off in cancellations since the 17th, but sales have stayed > at about 90-120 per day. > > On Dec 19, 12:20 am, Doug <[email protected]> wrote: > > FWIW. My relatively popular app's sales have been roughly 20-30% > > lower than average over the past 30 days compared to the previous 30 > > days. Also, my app has jumped up a few slots since I last checked it > > a couple weeks ago (and the category as a whole seems fairly shaken > > up). I haven't updated my app in the past month. Also, my install % > > has been dropping (again) since the last time Google found that stat > > to be incorrectly dropping. It's like they patched it, but then it > > went back on its merry way down. > > > > Honestly, after obsessing over these things for over year, I have > > finally just let it be the way it is and have found more interesting > > things to obsess over! > > > > Doug > > -- > 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
