If this is the case, over in the Entertainment category it seems that a lot of people with Android devices just can't get enough of (or be without) the "Step Brothers Soundboard".
j On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Roland <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've often wondered if the retention rate or the raw number of people > that retained the application figured into the ranking. One can > imagine two apps, one fewer downloads, but a higher retention rate > ultimately having more "users" and perhaps being deserving a higher > ranking. > > Roland > > On Oct 7, 1:35 pm, Dan Sherman <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm not arguing that it's not a good thing, just curious as to what would >> make the apps with lower ratings/downloads be considered better, and worthy >> of a higher spot :) >> >> Of course I'm biased with my own apps, but with a game thats (as far as I've >> seen), one of the top 5 rated games on the market, with over 120k >> downloads... Trying to figure out why games with 3.5* ratings, and 10k >> downloads are sitting above mine. :) >> >> - Dan >> >> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Streets Of Boston >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >> >> >> > I think, overall, this is a good thing. >> >> > Otherwise, good new apps will never come to the top because they will >> > be buried on the bottom forever. Old (good) apps will stay on top for >> > ever. >> >> > If the new app is not that good, it should sink to the bottom >> > gradually. >> >> > On Oct 7, 1:52 pm, Dan Sherman <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > That's one thing we've thought about, definitely possible, just feels odd >> > to >> > > have a heavily downloaded, extremely highly rated app slowly dropping off >> > > the charts to less downloaded, lower rated apps... >> >> > > - Dan >> >> > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Felipemnoa <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > > > They are probably giving the latest data about your app more weight. >> > I.e >> > > > the download rate of your app may actually be lower than a hot new app >> > with >> > > > thousands of downloads. >> >> > > > On Oct 6, 2009, at 6:10 PM, Dan Sherman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > > > I've been trying to figure out how the rankings in Android Market are >> > > > calculated. >> >> > > > One of my apps (Cestos), is in the action/arcade category, has a large >> > > > number of downloads (120k+), a large number of ratings (~4k), and a >> > very >> > > > high average rating (4.64 according to cyrket, 4.5stars on the market). >> >> > > > However, it is being beaten on the lists by many items with lower >> > ratings >> > > > (many 4.0 and a bunch of 3.5), with lower download counts/ratings. I >> > > > imagine there's a good bit of other things that go into rankings, but >> > having >> > > > one of the highest rated games on the market, and a good number of >> > > > downloads/ratings, and being down on page 3-4, with lower >> > rated/downloaded >> > > > apps sitting higher up, makes me wonder a bit... >> >> > > > Anyone have any insight? >> >> > > > - Dan >> >> > > > __________________________________________________ >> > > > Do You Yahoo!? >> > > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >> > > >http://mail.yahoo.com-Hide quoted text - >> >> > > - Show quoted text - > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
