Comments on: Android Market is only worth ONE million dollars?!? http://androidbakery.com/2009/09/02/android-market-is-only-worth-one-million-dollars/ Open Mobile OS Lifestyle Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:29:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tim Conneally http://androidbakery.com/2009/09/02/android-market-is-only-worth-one-million-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Tim Conneally Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:00:32 +0000 http://androidbakery.com/?p=135#comment-15 The discussion I was reading revolved around the closed nature of Apple's iPhone/iPod touch platform, and how game devs have a certain level of confidence that every user will have the same experience. With Android, there is no single hardware profile, and there's the possibility that it could turn into a less user-friendly PC gaming type environment where only certain phones can play certain games due to the variance in specs. It really won't be a problem until some supremely weak (or, conversely, supremely dominating) devices are released. But, with China Mobile using Android for OMS/OPhones, it seems like only a matter of time before skimpy freebie handsets start rolling out. The discussion I was reading revolved around the closed nature of Apple’s iPhone/iPod touch platform, and how game devs have a certain level of confidence that every user will have the same experience. With Android, there is no single hardware profile, and there’s the possibility that it could turn into a less user-friendly PC gaming type environment where only certain phones can play certain games due to the variance in specs.

It really won’t be a problem until some supremely weak (or, conversely, supremely dominating) devices are released. But, with China Mobile using Android for OMS/OPhones, it seems like only a matter of time before skimpy freebie handsets start rolling out.

]]> By: Chris Fagan http://androidbakery.com/2009/09/02/android-market-is-only-worth-one-million-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Chris Fagan Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:02:18 +0000 http://androidbakery.com/?p=135#comment-14 Hi, decent article, but I feel the need to help clarify some of the inaccuracies. Don't take is personal, I just want the facts to be straight.... You're confusing number of "downloads" with number of spots in "popularity". For example, CowPotato was not downloaded 304 times last week, it moved up in "popularity" 304 spots. To put this in perspective, we released CowPotato as a "beta" 8/24 (i.e last week). As you can clearly see in the android market, CowPotato has between 5,000 to 10,000 downloads in a little over one week. That's an average of almost 1,000 downloads per day. As of today (9-3-09) CowPotato's popularity ranking is 37 of 374 games in the "casual" category and 223 of 785 in all game categories. Not bad for one week in the market as a beta product... One other clarification, Froogloid is the maker of "Key Ring Reward Cards". Can you expound on why you think android is not a gaming platform? As a mobile OS, sure it has it's limitations but not more so than any other competitive mobile OS (iPhone for example). Thanks for the great article and keep up the good work! We need more people blogging about android :) Chris Froogloid, LLC Hi, decent article, but I feel the need to help clarify some of the inaccuracies. Don’t take is personal, I just want the facts to be straight….

You’re confusing number of “downloads” with number of spots in “popularity”. For example, CowPotato was not downloaded 304 times last week, it moved up in “popularity” 304 spots. To put this in perspective, we released CowPotato as a “beta” 8/24 (i.e last week). As you can clearly see in the android market, CowPotato has between 5,000 to 10,000 downloads in a little over one week. That’s an average of almost 1,000 downloads per day. As of today (9-3-09) CowPotato’s popularity ranking is 37 of 374 games in the “casual” category and 223 of 785 in all game categories. Not bad for one week in the market as a beta product…

One other clarification, Froogloid is the maker of “Key Ring Reward Cards”.

Can you expound on why you think android is not a gaming platform? As a mobile OS, sure it has it’s limitations but not more so than any other competitive mobile OS (iPhone for example).

Thanks for the great article and keep up the good work! We need more people blogging about android :)

Chris
Froogloid, LLC

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