Alright, based on the new emerging trends in Tizen Store, I have made some more observations.
- It's certain that Samsung is going to stop feturing new apps (especially the ones registered with Tizen Incentives) is not going to feature those apps in any category that bring many downloads (Top Free, New free) once the app receives 20k downloads.
- Uptil 20k downloads Samsung wants to feature the app so that developers feel that the app will make it to top 100
- Once 20k mark is reach, Samsung stop featuring the app. As a result, the download comes down under 1k - literally in the range of 200 to 500. So even if you receive 500 downloads for 10 days, it is impossible to receive 40k downloads for that month.
- Furthermore, this strategy will be applied only for the first month when app is launched - this is because the first month/first time when the app is launched, it receives lots of downloads. The downloads then gradually decrease and achieves a steep. During this "steep" phase, it is again impossible to receive 40k or more downloads in any month, unless you invest money in marketing.
- Overall effect of this strategy from Samsung is that many new apps will keep coming on the Tizen Store, but only 2-3 apps will make it to their Top 100 most downloaded list. Furthermore, Samsung does not make winners public, so it becomes very difficult to communicate with winners and know how many downloads they received, or make strategic decisions to increase your chances of winning 10k.
What do you guys think? Samsung surely does not want to give away more 10k awards and still want to attract more developers to develop for it's platform. Problem is there is no way developers will have any advantages in making apps for Tizen because the market is small and a very small , negligible subset of their users buy paid apps.
In short, it's going to be waste of time for writing apps for Tizen henceforth.
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