Re:Apple Reports First Quarter Results
by danielrhodes on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @05:33PM
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Totally. Non-phone iOS devices are the elephant in the room and drive an incredible number of app sales. For example, if you look at the top selling apps in the App Store, they are mostly games that are being downloaded on iPod Touches.
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Not sure I follow. How do you know those games are being downloaded on iPods and not iPhones?
From those stats we don't know, but app developers do know. I would say there are actually significantly more ipod app sales than iphone. It depends on the app, but the app developers that I hang out with tend to have more sales on ipod devices.
How do they know? I am an iOS developer and there is no way of seeing whether my apps are downloaded to an iPhone or an iPod (afaik).
Edit: That is, from iTunes Connect. Maybe your pals use some sort of usage logging/statistics from within the app.
If you're not actively collecting statistics from your users, then you're missing out on a huge amount of information.
The biggest gains for me have been:
1. when I could discontinue previous OS version (3.x) support because most of my users had transitioned to 4.x
2. It lets me know which features my users are actually using so that I can focus on enhancing and refining them.
3. It lets me know how many installs vs. sales that I have. And yes, this includes any pirated copies.
Users that mail you for support or hints, I generally ask them what device they use. There are a lot of iPod touches out there.