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> You can install the app on any number of devices that you're logged into ... So Monument Valley has 2.5x more installs than purchases No, it doesn't work lik

> You can install the app on any number of devices that you're logged into ... So Monument Valley has 2.5x more installs than purchases No, it doesn't work like that. Android and iOS installs are separate, if you buy it through one app store it doesn't transfer to the other. Combining the Android and iOS numbers together to reduce that ratio is dishonest. Just looking at Android, the installs to purchases ratio works out to 20 to 1 ... do you seriously believe that can be explained through multiple installs? C'mon. Read through the OP article as well. He also a encountered significant amount of mobile piracy, specifically on Android. There is widespread mobile piracy going on, arguing about installs-to-purchases ratios does nothing to hide it.

spacehome 11y ago
> do you seriously believe that can be explained through multiple installs? No, I don't. My point was specifically about iOS, because I know how much of a pain it is to keep a jailbroken phone, and I have a good sense of the general population and how many of them do so. (I develop a rather popular iOS app, and we have telemetry in the app that determines whether the device is jailbroken. We have multiple tests for whether a device is jailbroken. Jailbreak developers could fool all of our tests if they chose to do so. However, since we don't actually do anything with that data, we don't give anyone a reason to spoof them. In our population of users, jailbreakers make up less than 1%.)