The Android appstore competition v2

On Monday for our WIPJam @ Mobile Day & Night in Marseille  we ran the 2nd round of our Android appstore competition  If you missed the first installment have a look here to see the results.

The Android appstore competition v1 (follow up)

A quick summary of this first round was "no public vote winner" , the mark of a slight disappointment with the offering...But a great learning experience for all. Interestingly enough Sony Ericsson Playnow who were the only one not to have published the app have since "shut down" submissions to the appstore while they're fixing their processes! Not an easy job, so good luck to the team!

The Android appstore competition v2 - The process

For this second round, the principles was similar as for the first round at Droidcon Berlin:

• Take the kick-ass WIP Appstore wiki app by OpenIntents (available in an Android appstore near you)
• Place it in a series of France based/operating Android appstores :
  • Appcity
  • Appoke
  • Nexva
  • Orange
  • SFR (Vodafone)
  • we would have liked Bouygues but failed to find an upload location
• Measure the results
• Have a chat with appstore presents on the day to discuss the results
• Get the public to vote !

The facts

Contrary to the last competition where the (kickass) app ended up in the majority of the launched stores (except the one mentioned above). The track record this time was pretty bad. Orange despite a prompt answer within 24h rejected the app on the ground that it was not interesting for Orange customers as it is targeted at developers (I'm still hoping I can change that!). Appcity did not answer our submission email. And Vodafone are... still not launched. So finally I could only test the uploading process fully on 3 appstores, hence the absence of nice graphs and xls spreadsheet this time):

• Time to load :
  1. 
     1 Appoke
  2. 2 Vodafone
  3. 3 Nexva (40 min!!! as I had to select manually all the Android phone in a list of 3000 phones!!)

• Number of fields to fill in:
  1. 1 Appoke
  2. 2 Vodafone
  3. 3 Nexva

• Number of uploads needed:
  1. 1 Nexva
  2. 2 Appoke
  3. 3 Vodafone

• Time to market:
  1. 1 Appoke - Nexva (less than 24hours)

• Number downloads:
  1. 
     1 Appoke Nexva (20 downloads)

The discussions

Nexva and Appoke were present on the panel, and commented their results.

Both of them are still in beta, but downloads were pretty good putting them as equal 3rd if we merge this competition with our previous one).

Shaun from Nexva announced that they were aware of the difficult upload and were putting a new process will come in the coming days!

The public vote

Hadrien from Appoke won the public vote and is our first winner in the Android appstore competition! (albeit by a narrow margin)

Congrats and good luck!!

Next steps

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