Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical (Network World)

Posted Feb 16, 2011 20:13 UTC (Wed) by Lovechild (guest, #3592)
In reply to: Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical (Network World) by NAR
Parent article: Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical (Network World)

We collect anonymous statistics and Ubuntu account for the majority of users who opt in. The stats aren't publicly available yet for reasons unknown to me (likely lack of manpower).

The last figures I have put Ubuntu at 73% of all users. Admittedly these are from right after we enabled the feature in the 1.5.4 release and Ubuntu is simply an easier platform for users to experience development releases of Banshee which could bias the number. However since I read every incoming bug report and the same data regarding the underlying system is present in the logs this number does not seem far off.

The vast majority of our users are on Ubuntu using any way of counting them I have available.

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Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical (Network World)

Posted Feb 16, 2011 20:19 UTC (Wed) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link] (2 responses)

To be clear.. these stats are from user who purchase from the Amazon store, or is it users of banshee generally?

-jef

Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical (Network World)

Posted Feb 16, 2011 20:54 UTC (Wed) by Lovechild (guest, #3592) [Link] (1 responses)

users, we do not collect any data on the Amazon. However every bugreport I recall off hand on the Amazon support has been from an Ubuntu user.

Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical (Network World)

Posted Feb 16, 2011 21:02 UTC (Wed) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]

I'll point you to the history of the magnatune revenue in rhythmbox. It can be argued that most rhythmbox users were Ubuntu users in 2008 and yet they only accounted for 1/6 of the purchasing revenue generated from rhythmbox from Magnatunes. A majority of users of the application..but a small fraction of consumers willing to pay for content.

The point being. Usage habits and purchasing habits cannot be assumed to correlated, the magnatune revenue data shows the danger in that. Popularity does not directly equate to purchasing power and it can not be assumed that Ubuntu users of banshee will generated revenue in proportion to their numbers.

-jef