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"Average" figures are usually meaningless if not outright deceptive. If Bill Gates gets on a bus the average net worth shoots way up, but it doesn't mean a thin
by aristus 16y ago
"Average" figures are usually meaningless if not outright deceptive. If Bill Gates gets on a bus the average net worth shoots way up, but it doesn't mean a thing.
Consider a distribution where the top app earned $1,000,000, the next ten earned $100,000 total, the next 100 earned $10,000 total. The "average" earnings would be $10,000. But the vast majority of apps (100 out of 111) actually earn about 100 bucks.
- wallflower 16y agoWithout access to the actual iTunes sale data and using anecdotal information from people posting about their sales rank and revenue, my assumption is you could get a pretty credible grasp of how many apps are in the long tail/rarely purchased - just by looking at the number of ratings. Zero ratings probably means near-zero downloads. Though not everyone rates the app. In fact, some apps might not get rated until deletion.