In fact, taking those stats for each download bracket at the lowest level, the minimum downloads are over 322 MILLION apps...over 20 times the analyst`s projections and for Android alone!
On Jan 20, 8:56 pm, Josh Steiner <[email protected]> wrote: > That Gartner "analyst" pretty much just made all his numbers up. To prove > the point, he claims 16 million non iphone apps downloaded. Lets look at > just Android: > > http://www.androlib.com/appstats.aspx > > 24000 apps in their db > > http://www.androlib.com/appstatsdownloads.aspx > > 0.8% of apps have >250k downloads > > 0.008 * 24000 * 250000 = 48 million. > > And that is less than 1% of the apps in the market. I'm not claiming any > authoritative number, but just showing that the numbers they cite are off by > ridiculous orders of magnitude that the whole report is worthless headline > trolling. > > -Josh > > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Ed <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just read this article by a mobile phone developer on > > androidandme.com, which pretty much sums up many of the criticisms > > people have had about the Android Market since its launch... > > >http://androidandme.com/2010/01/news/how-does-a-developer-showoff-on-... > > > The points in simple bullets: > > -Need an online storefront > > -Need sync of Market data for users upgrading phones (*surprising to > > me--does this really not exist?) > > -Better search function > > -Need a Promo Code feature > > -Allow paid apps in all markets > > -Better categorization/ranking system > > > The article points out that Gartner says "Apple is now responsible for > > 99.4% of mobile app sales." Wow! Not sure what to say about that, > > other than Google and friends need to put their thinking caps on. > > > -- > > 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]<android-discuss%2Bunsubscribe@ > > googlegroups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
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