Wow. Congrats John, that's a hell of a milestone. I read with interest your comments last week about the number of downloads and server load due to the current twister season. I really appreciated seeing some actual numbers .. something to aspire to.
And getting an email like below from one of your users must have been the icing on the cake. William On May 31, 7:51 am, "Maps.Huge.Info" <[email protected]> wrote: > My app "Radar Now!" finally crossed the ONE MILLION active installs mark. > It's taken months of flirting with that milestone to get here but it finally > has been done. I was at 997,000 two months ago (or so) when they changed the > <insert unknown element here> calculation and my app dropped nearly 200,000 > active installs in one day. > > So what does 1,000,000 active installs actually mean? Beats me. I really > don't think this is an accurate figure. Last week the number jumped by > 10,000 several times in a single day, over 100% on one day of the download > counts. Seems curious to me but then again, if I want actual statistics, > I'll just get them from my own server which is far more accurate and > reliable. > > Next week the app should cross the 2,000,000 download mark. Again, what does > that mean? Nothing really. The important statistic to me is over 575,000 > people used the app nearly 7,000,000 times in the last 30 days. One was from > Joplin, MO who said the app may have helped keep his family out of harm's > way (see below). I wonder if "Angry Birds" ever got an e-mail like that? > > -John Coryat > > *Thank you from Joplin, Missouri > > Thank you so much for having this app available. > > Our town was hit by an EF-5 tornado four days ago. On leaving our > son's high school graduation ceremony, I noted that the sky didn't > look right, and it was starting to rain. My view of the horizon was > blocked by buildings. I pulled up your app and saw a large red radar > signal about several miles in size moving directly toward us. > > We we able to get to safety (not knowing that it was a tornado, but > was definitely something we wanted to be away from). Within a half an > hour the tornado wiped out about a third of our town. Thank you for > providing us with the information to be able to act quickly. > > (Craig Patterson) > * -- 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.
