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Comment by dlivingston | Hacker News Reader

> From what we can tell, Beeper Mini was the fastest growing paid Android application launch in history. In the first 48 hours, it was downloaded by more than 100,000 people.

These numbers seem very low. I would have expected numbers in the millions.

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Every consumer facing tech company with a paid product (physical or digital) I've worked at had Android as <10% of conversions. This includes just retail browsing from their phone shopping. Android users make no one money

Unless they're trying to join iOS group messages I guess

Our conversion from download to paid subscription is hovering around 50% fwiw

congrats eric, that's HUGE! A real pain point y'all are solving - long live Beeper!

Edit, forget what I said. I missed the keyword 'paid'.

Threads earlier this year apparently got 70 million user signed up the first 48h. I would assume this leads to at least >1m Android users?

First example I came to think about, might be much better examples out there. Regardless, something with "more than 100,000 people" in 48h is probably not the fastest growing Android app.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/07/tech/meta-social-media-do...

Really shows to me why so many developers end up focusing so much more on the iOS versions of their apps. I would have expected the same.

If it was a free app sure, but in the paid category those numbers drop quite a bit.

Note: "paid."

I don't believe for one microsecond that those numbers would qualify as the "fastest growing paid Android application launch in history". I do believe that their numbers are that low - I don't know a single person who would pay to... what, have text messages appear in a different colour on other peoples' phones?

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