Congratulations on the downloads! Definitely sounds like the sort of app that truly helps people.
-- Lance Nanek - Software Developer http://neatocode.com | http://twitter.com/LanceNanek | http://www.youtube.com/user/lnanek On May 30, 5:51 pm, "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.
