On Wednesday, March 27, 2013 4:33:31 PM UTC-7, Mike Wolfson wrote: > > You are the lucky ones. I still don't have it. > > I've been in the same boat as you for months - well, until last week.
> My free app has 250k+ downloads (and a 4.4 rating). I would think that > should rate something with the Play gods. My guess this beats most of you > other people that have been granted this feature. > I don't know if you beat me or not, or more importantly, how to beat their criteria, because I don't know what metrics they are using. Do they care about total installs? Most installs per one app? Total number of comments? Recent number of comments? Recent number of installs? Top grossing? Number paid or free installs? Perceived size of company? Or they looking at other factors and needed a somewhat random sample? Did I get in because they needed an underdog to compare against the big dogs? Because they needed someone from my category? (where I am the top grossing, but only in the 300s for all top grossing). Or an app with primarily male users, ages 35+? I've wondered whether I should launch more apps just to run up the score and get more respect from Google (as opposed to concentrating on one (1) app that makes me money and meets a certain target market). But that is harder to do that if you don't know what you are being scored on. I may still try it. I'd like to be an official "Top Developer". And for those who will chime in to say "those four blue dots don't make a difference", just keep telling yourself that, and I'll take your blue dots if you don't need them,. Nathan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
