Number of downloads ?

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.

Thanks :)

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. 

When you are in the 100s to 10000s range you can estimate from the % of devices.  For example I have one with 1000+ and the least downloaded devices are 0.01% and 0% so I guess approaching 10000 for this one.

StevenX said:

you can estimate from the % of devices

No, you can't.

Using this math, I had well above 10000 just in a few weeks after I saw "1K+". A year later it is still "1K+".

According to common forum knowledge, the number you see (100+, 1K+, 10K+, ...) is the number of unique accounts, that installed your app, but the device stats show updates. So if you have 100 active users and will publish updates every day, you get a lot of updates in device stats, but the real counter will remain the same.

If you ask me, the way statistics is implemented is a complete nonsense. No exact downloads number, no possibility to see stats for previous week, no country/language breakdown, device stats are updated weekly (if they are not broken this week, otherwise every two/three/four/... weeks), and everything else real stats from real app stores have.