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by exikyut 1638 days ago
TIL the number represents how many times an app has been (re)downloaded, not how many active users it has!

Makes perfect sense really... especially considering it's so easy to assume "downloads" = "users"...
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binwiederhier 1637 days ago
Yeah I didn't know that until I had my own app in the Play store. It is quite surprising even though it says Downloads.
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jonwinstanley 1637 days ago
Does that include updated versions too? So 10 updates would count as 10 downloads for a single user?
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