Thursday, November 18, 2004
Handango Changes How Top Selling Software is Calculated
Posted by Jason Dunn in "THOUGHT" @ 10:00 AM
"This post is really off-topic for the PocketBreeze forum but I just feel I have to say what I feel about Handango new "most popular" rating system that was activated a few hours ago. For those of you who don't know, Handango was planning to change their "most-popular" rating system in the last few months from the old system who rated the most popular software by the number of software-purchases to their new system based on software revenue. With the new system, based on revenue, there is simply no place for lower priced software , if you will check Handango's new best-selling list you will see the only two software titles that cost less then $15 among all the top 35 software titles are PocketBreeze ($12.95) and Pocket Plus ($14.94)."
We had several people submit this today - on the surface, this seems like a strange move to me because it will distort the results towards higher-priced apps, not the ones that people are actually buying. I wonder what motivated Handango to make this change?
We had several people submit this today - on the surface, this seems like a strange move to me because it will distort the results towards higher-priced apps, not the ones that people are actually buying. I wonder what motivated Handango to make this change?
