[android-developers] Re: December 2011: Market downloads are dropping like crazy - why?

I'd say this is just a slow week with Chirstmas and everything, but I
am seeing the same thing.

On Dec 20, 3:44 pm, Terry <terb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> December 20: Now it has started again. The graphical display of the
> number of downloads (of ALL apps I have checked) is dropping
> significantly again. Even though the Market app no longer seems to
> show this graphical display, other browsers do, and it is disapointing
> that this should FAIL again !?
>
> Terry
>
> On 8 Des, 09:23, Nikolay Elenkov <nikolay.elen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Terry <terb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > The number of downloads seems to be picking up again.
>
> > Same here.
>
> > > At the same time, the Market team informs us that "the install graphs
> > > displayed in the web view of Android Market were not accurately
> > > displaying the install activity data", and have removed them - for
> > > now.
> > > So, obbviously, SOMETHING has happened, and it seemed to affect most
> > > of the apps (?).
>
> > Pretty much all apps I looked at in the web Market had a huge drop
> > in the graph, so I'm guessing it was/is global or at least wide spread.
>
> > > I suspect that it wasn't the number of downloads that dropped, but the
> > > registration of them.
>
> > As usual, Admob impressions and/or Flurry events are way more accurate
> > metrics. (Admob was broken for a while too, though).- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

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