On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Nikolay Elenkov <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Jim Graham <[email protected]> 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. >> > > There is some unscientific evidence that most users try out and > buy apps on weekends. Especially games. So maybe end of week > (Thu-Fri) is a good time to release. However, since there is no > more a 'Just In' category (bucket?), it's not clear where your app > will be shown. Maybe in 'Top New' if you are lucky. But with > the device Market (the web seems to be OK) randomly switching > location for the past few days, you can never be sure who will see it. >
Another idea: if you have ads or session tracking in your app, after a while you should have some statistics about when it gets the most usage (ad requests/session). Then you could target your releases accordingly. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" 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-developers?hl=en
