Johnas, Time spent and number of launches are poor metrics for app quality. Maybe it makes some sense for games.
But consider a car navigation app, or an Office document viewer - their use time/count is dependent on factors that have nothing to do with how much users like them. I have a data backup program on my phone that I liked well enough to pay for. Yet it runs in automatic mode just once a day and only for a few seconds. -- Kostya Vasilyev -- http://kmansoft.wordpress.com 17.07.2010 3:41 пользователь "Jonas Petersson" <jonas.peters...@xms.se> написал: On 07/16/2010 05:35 PM, String wrote: > > On 16 July, 16:14, "Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)"<cor...... +1 >> From my analysis, the key metric in market position is acceleration, >> not total downloads, c... Since this is all speculation, perhaps there is an even simpler method: It is obvious that the phone reports back what is still installed now and then (presumably when it looks for updates). To also report back how many times that application has been (manually) launched and/or number of seconds on screen since last report wouldn't be particularly hard to implement (though it probably would trigger a bit of paranoia). I'm not saying it DOES, but such stats might be a reasonably fair indication of actual popularity. Best / Jonas -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers"... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
