On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Jim Graham <spooky1...@gmail.com> wrote: > So basically, your answer is that there is no best time....that there > is always someone around somewhere, and weekends vs weekends vs holidays > become irrelevant? Or did I read your response incorrectly?
I'll be stunned if anyone has done a decent study. We know some heuristics about when to post on eBay because some people post thousands of listings a week, and therefore have enough data themselves to draw conclusions. The only similar people in Android-dom are not very nice. When you have 1-2 apps and ship updates every 1-2 months, it takes years to get enough data, and that assumes you were collecting the data in the first place and ignores the impact of a changing audience during those years. Google could publish the results of a study, but it would run afoul of the Heisenmarket Uncertainty Principle (if you are big enough to learn something about a market you run and you talk about it, talking about it changes the behavior of your market and may obviate what you learned). I don't think that the pirated Android Market feed has enough granularity in download counts for a third party to be able to do a decent study, except perhaps for new apps, where there may be rapid movement through some of the smaller/earlier download count buckets. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _The Busy Coder's Guide to *Advanced* Android Development_ Version 2.0 Available! -- 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
