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5 months ago

App Downloads: Please show a more exact number of app downloads in the CIQ store

I have recently made my own watch face and uploaded it to the Connect IQ store, however, it is very difficult (and a little frustrating) as a developer to not be able to see the amount of downloads I have. For a number of days, all I knew about my watch face's progress was that it had "100+" downloads. Then when I checked yesterday, I saw that it was finally "1K+". But that's all we as developers see. A developer who has "100K+" won't know how many downloads they have until they reach "500K+" - and that is a very massive gap that could take months before the developer really finds out a better approximation of how many downloads they have.

I have really enjoyed being able to make this watch face and I am very thankful that Garmin has provided means for independent developers to do so, but it is very difficult to gauge what audiences want if we don't know anywhere near how many people are actually interested in the product. Even just showing "1.2K" or "534K" is better than having to wait tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of downloads (and many months later) before knowing how many downloads we have.

Please consider adding this feature as it would really make marketing a little easier for independent developers. Thank you!

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  • 5 months ago

    That's the way it used to be, where everyone could see the actual number of unique downloads (not updates), But then rounding came,  some say it was due to monitorization.

    I have a spreadsheet where I could track the actual downloads over time, that's now kind of worthless.  1 to 100 is a bit easier than 100k to 500k, but still not the best

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  • 5 months ago

    That's the way it used to be, where everyone could see the actual number of unique downloads (not updates), But then rounding came,  some say it was due to monitorization.

    I have a spreadsheet where I could track the actual downloads over time, that's now kind of worthless.  1 to 100 is a bit easier than 100k to 500k, but still not the best

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  • 5 months ago in reply to jim_m_58

    Yeah, I read a bit about those ideas in the discussions. I hoped that by putting in another request that Garmin might be encouraged to at least make it available to developers as an option.

    Yeah, that's unfortunate because using a spreadsheet could actually be really useful in making possible future download estimates!