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App Store rankings most definitely cannot be taken to be a reliable indicator for anything. Max is at No. 3, while Netflix is at No. 29 - this doesn't actually
by xNeil 3y ago
App Store rankings most definitely cannot be taken to be a reliable indicator for anything. Max is at No. 3, while Netflix is at No. 29 - this doesn't actually tell you anything, except that Max has more downloads at the moment.
Threads is obviously going to rank high, because the vast majority of Instagram users haven't used it yet - they're going to download it now, and so it's at No. 2. Looking at how badly the platform seems to have tanked from launch, I'm not keeping my hopes up on it being a competitor to X in any meaningful way.
- mitthrowaway2 3y agoIt would be nice if apps could be ranked weighted by install order. When someone is setting up a new phone, I want to know which apps they consider so essential that they install them right away. That's a much better signal of utility (to me) than overall app install volume trends.
- sgerenser 3y agoOn iOS this still wouldn’t mean much, as anyone upgrading from a previous iPhone (probably 90% or more of users) just do an automatic transfer from their old phone. This just redownloads all the apps in a semi-random order.
- asutekku 3y agoI do have an access to a couple of third party AppStore analytics tools and they clearly show a drop both on iOS and on Android after initial spike after rebranding. On iOS, the downloads are roughly half of what they were at the beginning of the year and 1/3 less than what they were during the month before the rebranding. Note that these are only rough estimates but they are relatively good at predicting the trend.