I simply don't think the number of installs is a compelling piece of information, not the least because it is gamed everywhere. To me it says one of two things:

I simply don't think the number of installs is a compelling piece of information, not the least because it is gamed everywhere. To me it says one of two things: "someone installed it," or "developer spun up a zillion micro instances to juke the stats." Nothing personal, it's the reputation of the data itself.