Waste Of Time Using App Downloads As A Measure Of Success
Our pal Stuart Dredge has written an interesting piece in The Guardian Apps blog today, he talks about how ‘the mobile apps industry is suffering from ‘download-milestone overkill’. By that he explains that developers and publishers are more than happy to boast about how many times their apps have been downloaded and yet analysts and even the store owners themselves are only using downloads as a key metric to gauge success, in other words, they’re only a guide to potential success.
You can read more of this interesting report by clicking here.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
