Today Folder Downloader for Dropbox hit 10k downloads*. It’s nothing spectacular, obviously, but it’s a good result to reach in less than 4 months with no advertising for such a niche application.
This, BTW, makes it even clearer how good centralized stores are for distributing software.
A weird fact I’ve noticed is that for apps in the same category – Productivity – 51% of active device installs are on 2.3 Gingerbread, and almost 25% on 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. For Folder Downloader I see opposite figures: 53% on 4.0 and 25% on 2.3. Even more interesting, almost 10% of active Folder Download users are already on 4.1 Jelly Bean, while only 1.6% of overall Productivity apps users run the newest Android version.
For some reason, Folder Downloader and/or or Dropbox users have more up-to-date phones than average.
On the other hand, I’m a bit disappointed that only 54% of users keep the app installed over time. There’s obviously room for improvement.
* As I started writing this post a few hours ago, then paused and got dragged into work, I saw more than 10k downloads. Later today Google notified app publishers that there was a download counting problem. The correct count is a couple hundreds short of 10k downloads, which will anyway be reached in less than 2 days.