Hi everybody, so, I uploaded one of my average apps, which on google play has a few thousand downloads in a few weeks. However, after a week on Amazon, it has " - " downloads (meaning zero).
For me Amazon AppStore downloads and sales are slowly dying. It started about a year ago and now are close to zero. The only thing that still sells there for me is Fire TV stuff (but it’s about 1 sale per day).
I suspect one of the reasons might be that other developers are buying fake reviews - maybe they are getting the downloads now because they have more and better reviews. Other reason might be that people stopped buying Kindle Fire tablets. And we all know Fire Phone was a disaster.
Oddly enough I have the opposite problem. On google I get 20-50 downloads a day. And that’s a huge improvement b/c before I changed my icon and description I couldn’t get more than 5 downloads a day. But it seems to have peaked at 50, b/c no matter what I try, I can’t get it any higher. On iTunes I get about the same 20-50 downloads a day. The only difference is that Apple users actually buy the in app purchase items from time to time. On Google I’ve never made a single sale.
On Amazon I get between 120 and 150 downloads a day, and they buy the in-app purchases all the time. I average about $10 a day on Amazon. On Apple about $2 a day. On Google it’s $0.
In my case I get from Amazon about 2 downloads at day, overall 78 downloads (game published about a month ago). In GP is about 1100 downloads overall (10-30 at day) Amazon.com: Capital Map Flag: Appstore for Android
But no one rated or reviewed it:p
Yeah, I somehow got my little niche over there. Not that it’s all that big or anything, but I get more downloads on Amazon than Google and iTunes combined.
You can not use amazon app store as your primary source of getting downloads, you can only get a significant amount of downloads if you are in the top or featured which takes alot of reviews.
Well that was fun while it lasted. I was getting over a 100 downloads a day from Amazon, for a while. Then it dropped to 80 one day, then 40, 15, 8, 4 and now 0. No idea why I spiked up, but I’m off whatever list was doing that. Oh well. I made about $100 in in-app purchases. Not too shabby for Amazon.