Number of downloads ?

I've uploaded and gotten my first data field approved. I can see it has 10+ downloads, but exactly how many is that? I know it's more than 10, but is it over 100+ or maybe even more?

  • For about two years now, Garmin has stopped reporting exact download figures and instead provides only broad categories:

    More than 10
    More than 100
    More than 1,000
    More than 10,000
    More than 50,000
    etc.

  • Being a little sarcastic here, but I wonder why they decided to include 50,000 instead of just skipping to 100,000 since that was the pattern up until 10,000. 

    Wouldn't it be great for developers to see 50, 500, 5000, also?   

    You know about how Garmin watches are infamous for providing relatively pessimistic/harsh activity feedback to users?  Like, "Oh you completed an 8 mile run? great but your performance decreased from last week."   It's almost as if they got that same person/s to design the developer feedback for apps/watchfaces posted to the ConnectIQ app store, as if developers needed more realistic/harsh/NEGATIVE feedback.  "Oh you've got 1000 downloads? great, but you'll need TEN TIMES MORE downloads to surpass that rather paltry achievement... BWAAHAHAHAH, YOU SUCK!!!!" (this is what plays in my head each and every time I look at how many downloads my apps have).

    Garmin, please consider changing this!  

  • It doesn't really motivate developers when you have no idea if people are using your app. Mine has sat at 1000+ from about a year. Is it now 1010 or 9990? I don't know, but would maybe put a bit more effeort if I could seeit steadily rising 

  • About the time Garmin added their own payment method, the started rounding the download numbers.  Prior to that you could see much more accurate numbers.  These changes may be releated but I've never seen any confirmation from Garmin.

    Right now, you see 1+ for up to 10

    10+ for up to 100

    100+for up to 1000

    1k+ for up to 50k

    50k+ up to 100k

    and so on...

  • What Garmin is doing here is useless.