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My Experience in the Educational Apps Market – 2013 report

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Post by PierreA »

bonzq wrote: post #75

PierreA, jcampbell1 said you are immensely talented and he meant the app you created. I agree with that but there is one more thing to that, and that is the way you use English. I suppose English is your second language (so is mine) but how clearly you express yourself and what a pleasure it is to read your blog confirms that you're a super talented guy.

Thanks ! According to my wife who is english to french translator - which helps me a lot to check my writing - my english is not so good ;-) But I believe it is enough to explain clearly what I want to say

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Post by josephlord »

callmeed wrote: post #78

Pierre, thanks for the great post. I have one question for you: I've heard that the download:rating ratio for iOS apps is around 30:1 and you can, therefore, estimate an app's downloads by multiplying ratings by 30. Do you have any thoughts on this? You seem to have a higher ratio based on your numbers and the ratings in the app store. Thanks again.

I think the ratio for at least free apps that don't pop up a request to review the app is MUCH higher. It is at least for my small scale app.

I don't have any fake reviews (although there might be two or three from friends and family) and while I don't have metrics for the number in active use the number of updates downloaded on a recent update was 130 times the number of reviews I have and the total number of downloads is well over 400 times the review count.

Review counts and download numbers global. A user generally only sees the reviews in their own country's app store I think.

I really don't want to do it to the user experience but I might have add a pop up requesting rating when a user has used the app enough, I've only had a couple of reviews in the past few months.

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