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Sorry, had to totally butcher the title to get it in to 80 chars. He mentions his app works on the iPad too. I find the 3:1 ratio of iPhone:Android sales to b

by sadiq 16y ago

Sorry, had to totally butcher the title to get it in to 80 chars. He mentions his app works on the iPad too. I find the 3:1 ratio of iPhone:Android sales to be quite interesting actually, higher than i'd expect given what i'd read about people's experiences (or maybe those doing well from it are just keeping quiet?).

lanstein 16y ago
Well, he did say that the app gets returned 27% of the time on Android, which certainly doesn't help (he guessed a large number of the returns are because the user pirated the app and returned it).
- lotharbot 16y ago
  Later in the thread he mentioned the actual piracy rates (computed from number of instances that access his server vs number of units sold): 35% android, 13% apple. Looks like, even if all of the pirated Android versions were paid for, he'd still be making about twice as much on the Apple version.
  - whatusername 16y ago
    That figure might be overestimating though? At least on the App Store - when you buy an app it's tied to the account - not to a device.. So In my house there are two devices that use a paid version of the app..
    - jasonlotito 16y ago
      But the app is set up in such a way that even if you had two devices, he'd know it was still one user. The numbers could still be off, but knowing what the App is and what it entails, it's actually pretty easy to get a fairly accurate piracy rate.
- dpcan 16y ago
  It makes me feel better (somehow) that someone with this many sales has the same cancel rate as me. I don't really think people are pirating anymore, I think they just uninstall the later when they realize they may not want to replay my game over and over again. My puzzle game gets WAY LESS returns than my sports app. I think people see more repeat play value in the puzzle game though the puzzle game sees less sales than the sports game.
  - alexro 16y ago
    It's the pirates, they continue using his web server part of the app
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    - dminor 16y ago
      There's no reason to assume that people are paying for the app and then pirating it -- it's perfectly easy to install a pirated apk from off the internet without paying for it at all. This in and of itself likely accounts for Android's higher piracy rate.
- nailer 16y ago
  I don't buy this - as an Android customer, there's a lot of apps that simply don't do what they say. Gameloft has a 3D racer called 'Ashphalt' that has great screenshots, but runs at about 10 frames a second on a current gen device. This isn't a limit of the hardware - other racers are suitably smooth - but the returns are needed to make sure you don't get scammed by something that isn't usable.
enjo 16y ago
The iPhone still had a 4-5x market share advantage last I checked.

by sadiq 16y ago

lanstein 16y ago

Well, he did say that the app gets returned 27% of the time on Android, which certainly doesn't help (he guessed a large number of the returns are because the user pirated the app and returned it).

lotharbot 16y ago
Later in the thread he mentioned the actual piracy rates (computed from number of instances that access his server vs number of units sold): 35% android, 13% apple. Looks like, even if all of the pirated Android versions were paid for, he'd still be making about twice as much on the Apple version.
- whatusername 16y ago
  That figure might be overestimating though? At least on the App Store - when you buy an app it's tied to the account - not to a device.. So In my house there are two devices that use a paid version of the app..
  - jasonlotito 16y ago
    But the app is set up in such a way that even if you had two devices, he'd know it was still one user. The numbers could still be off, but knowing what the App is and what it entails, it's actually pretty easy to get a fairly accurate piracy rate.
dpcan 16y ago
It makes me feel better (somehow) that someone with this many sales has the same cancel rate as me. I don't really think people are pirating anymore, I think they just uninstall the later when they realize they may not want to replay my game over and over again. My puzzle game gets WAY LESS returns than my sports app. I think people see more repeat play value in the puzzle game though the puzzle game sees less sales than the sports game.
- alexro 16y ago
  It's the pirates, they continue using his web server part of the app
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  - dminor 16y ago
    There's no reason to assume that people are paying for the app and then pirating it -- it's perfectly easy to install a pirated apk from off the internet without paying for it at all. This in and of itself likely accounts for Android's higher piracy rate.
nailer 16y ago
I don't buy this - as an Android customer, there's a lot of apps that simply don't do what they say. Gameloft has a 3D racer called 'Ashphalt' that has great screenshots, but runs at about 10 frames a second on a current gen device. This isn't a limit of the hardware - other racers are suitably smooth - but the returns are needed to make sure you don't get scammed by something that isn't usable.

enjo 16y ago

The iPhone still had a 4-5x market share advantage last I checked.