I decided to write a script to pull some data from cyrket. So I stand corrected for my magic 1000 number.
There are about 1200 games that are over 5000 downloads, and about 4300 apps that are over 5000 downloads. Of those combined, about 5536 apps/games are 3.5 stars or over, and they belong to about 2801 developers. My numbers are a little bit on the lenient side, as I count any apps that show a rating of 3.23 or higher on Cyrket. I think the cut-of point for 3.5 stars is a rating of 3.25. I do this just to prevent allegations that I am under-counting and thus not a fan boy of Android. Also, as of this writing, Cyrket records about 20277 apps and 4147 games, or a total of about 24500. So if you have submitted an app to Android Market, your chance of getting Seeding Device is more than 20%! And this exercise probably blows off $1M of click money if each device costs $300+. On Mar 9, 3:18 pm, clark <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 9, 11:59 am, Tomei <[email protected]> wrote:> I am sad because > of either of two things: > > > (1) Google has too much money to waste, and I don't. That makes me > > sad. > > If it allows developers a chance to work with a higher end device, > which they may not have, then I don't see this as a waste. You may > just be sad because you were not included. > > > (2) Google spends their money wisely and only reward a small number of > > good developers (say less than 1000) with a Seeding Device. This means > > of all the apps out there in the Market, less than 1000 are [A] rated > > 3.5 stars or higher, and [B] have more than 5000 downloads. > > > If (2) is true, this means the Android market is full of apps that are > > rated 3 stars or less, or no body wants, or both. > > As TreKing said, "more baseless stats." You should provide some > sources for these claims otherwise they mean nothing to us. With the > ease of getting apps onto the Market, there probably are quite a few > that are not worth the download, but I've seen many that are. There > are some good developers out there that actually spend the time to put > out a good app, and sometimes for free. -- 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.
