Re: [android-developers] Re: Phone model penetration

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Efi Merdler-Kravitz
<efi.merdler@gmail.com> wrote:
> :-)
> Why do you think appbrain are not reliable ?

Well, I suppose it depends on how you define "reliable". It is
absolutely reliable as a picture of the most popular devices among
AppBrain users, barring AppBrain screwing up the counts somehow. If
you believe that AppBrain users are representative of your target
audience, then it should be fine for you. I think AppBrain users are
not representative of the general Android user population (most of
whom have probably never heard of AppBrain), and so this data might
skew more towards more-powerful devices, but that's just me.

Any survey, whether free or fancy-paid ones, will have some sort of
bias. The stuff on the Android developer site for API levels, for
example, is only for requests made to the Android Market and therefore
will miss Market-less devices (Kindle Fire, various flavors of Nook,
first-generation ARCHOS tablets, etc.).

My apologies for the attitude I copped on my previous reply -- I'm a
bit short on sleep.

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