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The Android appstore competition

Posted by ThibautR on 22 May 2010 - 2 Comments Categories :

I'm in Berlin today presenting the result the results of the "Android appstore competition" at Droidcamp part of the Droidcon.

What's the "Android appstore competition" ?

Simple!!! You take the coolest app on the planet, place it on 10 different Android appstores, compare the results and vote live for the winner!

The WIP Appstore wiki app developed by Friedger Mueffke at Open Intents.

(For experimentation perspective, we will not provide a link to the application but you can find in an Android appstore near you... and I'm sure someone will post a link to it in the comments soon ;)

The facts

The selected criteria:

Time to load :
1. 1 Androidpit
2. 2 Appoke
3. 3 Hanster - PDAssi

Number of fields to fill in:
1. 1 Appoke
2. 2 AndroidPIT - GetJar
3. 3 PLAYNOW - Handster

Number of uploads needed:
1. 1 PDAssi
2. 2 GetJar
3. 3 Android Market - Handster

Time to market:
1. 1 Android Market - Handster - AndroidPIT
2. 2 GetJar
3. 3 PDAssi

Number downloads:
1. 1 Android Market
2. 2 GetJar
3. 3 PocketGear

The audience's vote

On the day sitting on our panel:

And I am afraid to say that we had no winner... offside anonymous comment "Why bother it looks like Android Market will bring me all the downloads".

But I'm hoping that with GetJar sponsoring our next WIPJam in Berlin we might be able to have a second round of voting... interested just sign - in for free for the event!

For full results you can either get the full raw results in xls or the hilighly visual and entertaining pdf presentation (which got destroyed on the day by a bad Bumptop/Firefox/Windows7/Projector on my mac).

Comments:

Nice study Thibaut! See you all at WIPJam in Berlin!

Bruce Jones
Sr. Developer Evangelist
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Posted by Bruce Jones on 05/26 at 04:09 PM

I really liked the idea of the appstore competition. The results were interesting and the selection of members for the panel was a good mix. Thanks for posting these graphs. I love graphs!

Posted by Carmen Villadar on 05/31 at 03:34 PM