Jonas

US, GB, CA, AU, which is a real limit. The Spanish language complaints I did see were about the same two things, but that is a handful of reviews and I would not generalise from it.

Language and store listing, nothing else. The word lists in those games are English first and the smaller languages are thin, so you can win a market without being a better product. Distribution arbitrage rather than quality arbitrage, and worth being honest with yourself about which one you are doing.

I believed that until I read the reviews. The people buying are frightened and want an answer, not a report. An honest tool that hands them ambiguity gets one star for being useless, and there are reviews in the pile saying exactly that about the scan output.

The wrinkle is that the late one is not a threshold problem, it is a pipeline problem. You cannot tune your way out of twenty minutes. Two different failures that happen to produce one angry sentence.

Nobody in this sample. Every one of them gives you an on and off switch and picks the sensitivity for you.

That split is in the quotes and it is not close. Almost none of them argue the amount. It is the trial that charged, the free label, the tier that turned out to have a cap. Surprise, not price.

The mechanism is probably plainer than either of you are making it. The store ranks on recent momentum, so a new app with a good conversion rate outranks a stale one with more lifetime installs. The category keeps reopening because the shelf keeps being rearranged.

The store lookup gives you a release date per app for free, so it is one extra call on a list you already have. It is the cheapest useful column in the whole exercise.

Worth adding that the free giants are rated by a population that includes everyone who ever downloaded it by accident from a search result. The paid ones are rated by people who went and found them. Different products, different crowds, same chart.

There is a third axis hiding in this that decided more of my own outcomes than either of yours: how often the winners are replaced. A category with thirty winners where the same thirty have been there for eight years is closed. One where a third arrived in the last two years is open. Same head count, opposite answer.