God Dag Jonas,
<<When compared to alternative applications for the same task>>
Right, but how do you come up with alternative applications, given the
variety of apps? There are categories defined for Android Market apps,
but they are quite broad. It would be possible to define more
categories, but I sincerely hope there will be apps that don't fit any
existing category.
Even apps that seem to fit in the same category (say, "social") can vary
quite a bit in their usage patterns.
Just playing Devil's advocate here.
Like your idea for showing apps that haven't been used for a white. It's
like IRL - if you find something you haven't needed for a few years, you
can throw it away ;)
-- Kostya
17.07.2010 11:46, Jonas Petersson пишет:
Privet Kostya,
On 07/17/2010 08:09 AM, Kostya Vasilyev wrote:
Time spent and number of launches are poor metrics for app quality.
Maybe it makes some sense for games.
Well, "quality" is not at all what I was after, "popularity" more so.
There certainly are apps that automatically start a service at boot
time and perform their splendid task that will not show up at all for
the measurement I suggested.
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.
When compared to alternative applications for the same task, those
indicators should still be quite relevant. Launching nav A more often
or using it for longer than than nav app B clearly indicates that
which one I prefer even though I have both installed.
Part of the reason I brought it up is that I think it would be a good
thing for the user to know about - a bit like the Battery stats, this
would indicate whether an app is mostly just wasting storage space
since I have not actually made any use of it for XXX days. The system
could quite easily keep stats on this, but writing an app for it isn't
that easy.
Best / Jonas
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