It all looks like one big magic show! Incognito, the number of active installations jumped by 30%, not to 30%, ok? Where do you get your knowledge about what "active installations" really is? Guessing of what the words might mean or hard evidence / Google's official explanation (yeah, I am new here and also believe in Santa)?
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Mattaku Betsujin < [email protected]> wrote: > My app's active install jumped from 3618 to 6953, while the total download > increased only about 100. I can't imagine that all a sudden 3000 users who > previously have uninstalled my app decide to reinstall it on the same day. > > Something is very fishy. > > My guess is that Google doesn't really know who has actively installed what > app. So when the numbers seems to low, they randomly add some back to make > everybody happy. > > What is really bad about this is the "active install" is used in the market > ranking algorithm. So on the days of "active install tax refund", you'd see > the rankings get a big shake down. Well, this time it moved my app up by 6 > places, so I guess I shouldn't be complaining .... > > ... but I don't think this is right. > > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Incognito <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Actual number of devices that currently have your application installed. >> 30% means that of your total downloads only 30% are installed. >> >> >> On Apr 23, 2009, at 1:13 AM, Mariano Kamp <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> And again. >> From yesterday evening to this morning the number of active installs of my >> app jumped by 30% while the number of downloads stayed constant. >> >> It gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling when those numbers change at will and >> without any explanation. It could be worse they could drop. >> >> I have total trust in these numbers! >> >> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Mariano Kamp < <[email protected]> >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> I was always wondering what that number is about. My assumption was >>> that this is the number of people who have my app installed. And the >>> percentage shows the relation to the downloads. >>> >>> Wouldn't that mean that the percentage will get lower with each update >>> as the number of users stay the same, but the app is (re-)downloaded. Or are >>> the redownloads not counted? >>> >>> From about 6 hours ago to right now the active install percentage of my >>> app jumped from 23% to 31%. I am wondering why that is? The number of >>> downloads didn't change all that much, for the sake of this argument is >>> stayed constant. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Mariano >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
