Ask HN: Any other devs seeing decreased android downloads from March 7th on?

IMHO, this is exactly what the issue is. When my market app upgraded to play, there was no indication that the actual name of the app was changing also. I'm running MIUI with the ADW Launcher and the upgrade also didn't remove the market app icon on the desktop.

When I tapped the Market icon to launch the market, nothing happened and after the first tap, the icon disappeared. Thinking WTF? I checked all apps and it was nowhere to be found. Having had this issue before with different launchers where an icon will exist on one launcher but not another, I switched to Go and the Market icon wasn't there either.

I hopped online to download an apk for Market when I stumbled onto something that indicated it might be "Play" now instead. Sure enough, the icon was there all the time, it's just now called "Play".

Not a very user friendly upgrade/name change of the Market app if you ask me.

It seems the my numbers are rebounding and slowly creeping back to normal.

Especially since my app has a large user base outside of the US, I'd assume the sudden switch to PLAY was even more confusing for them.

It's been constant for me, absolutely no weird change. about 5% drop on the 7th, with a 10% increase on the 8th, but that's a completely normal variation.

Thursday and Friday were about 10% lower than normal, but I've seen variations like this often.

I checked my last three months and March 7th was the largest drop I've had, but my numbers as of today are rebounding.

had a little drop with one of my apps, starting march 5th, but seems to be recovering now (down from ~40 to 30 installs per day).