Update: As a response to user feedback from the next version on NewsRob will not collect any stats anymore for the time being.
*If* I will turn it back on I will do so in a *loud* way and will ask the users for feedback *first*.
I am very happy to announce that NewsRob now has been downloaded more than 50,000 times from the Android Market. Thank you!
I have been frequently asked about different stats on NewsRob. I think this is a good time to share some data.
NewsRob was published to the Android Market in the mid of January 2009, but I just started tracking the number of active users in May 2009. So here are the active users since then:
The ups are when a new version was published, except for the last one, that was the introduction of the Droid. The downs are the weekends.
Active users are unique users on that particular day, think visitors. Passive NewsRob installations that just sync, but the NewsRob UI was not launched, are not taken into account.
This is the geo distribution of NewsRob users:
Interestingly Spain is the single largest NewsRob user base in Europe. Muchas gracias.
The top four European countries combined are about the same population as the US alone, but that wasn't surprising ;-)
I personally find the following interesting:
The average time of a NewsRob session is 20 minutes and on average the NewsRob GUI is launched three times a day by a user.
When taking the number of users of a single day, say 8,000, multiply it by the number of sessions, say three, and by the average session length, you'll get 8,000*3*20/60/24 = 333 days of usage per calendar day.
If you continue that example you'll get to 25 years of usage for November, or 19 year for October as seen above. Pretty cool I would say. It far out weights the time I spent working on NewsRob.
Last not least here are some technical parameters you may find interesting:
Roughly every 5th NewsRob user runs cyanogenmod:
In case you are curious, this data is provided by flurry.
Bonus: Walking Down Memory Lane
Ok, you made it until here, so there is a special treat for you. Tim Suh posted a video of NewsRob nine months ago on YouTube. I think it's interesting to see that today. There are still some elements left that are in today's version of NewsRob.
NOTE: THIS IS NOT THE CURRENT VERSION OF NEWSROB.
