{"id":526,"date":"2015-10-14T16:33:52","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T14:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neurons.dk\/?p=526"},"modified":"2015-10-19T10:26:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T08:26:06","slug":"how-fast-do-users-upgrade-to-a-new-version-of-your-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neurons.dk\/?p=526","title":{"rendered":"How fast do users upgrade to a new version of your app?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>About a month ago I released a new version of the 10,000 app. It contained a few things but nothing ground breaking. Nonetheless I had some assumptions about how fast users would upgrade their app, more precisely I expected that 80 to 90 percent would be running the latest version within 30 days of launch.<br \/>\nAt the time of writing a little over a month has passed and I have some numbers to reflect on. With a total of about 10,000 active device installs (totally coincidental :)) I think there&#8217;s some basis for statistics, which I find interesting.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: I made a miscalculation the first time I ran through the numbers. I have adjusted this and some of my conclusions has been re examined and adjusted accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The numbers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After 1 day: 15.5 % had upgraded<br \/>\nAfter 2 days: 28.9 %<br \/>\nAfter 3 days: 33.7 %<br \/>\nAfter 4 days: 36.4 %<br \/>\nAfter 5 days: 38.9 %<br \/>\nAfter 6 days: 40.0 %<br \/>\nAfter 1 week: 42.1 %<br \/>\nAfter 2 weeks: 48.4 %<br \/>\nAfter 3 weeks: 52.6 %<br \/>\nAfter 4 weeks: 55.9 %<br \/>\nAfter 1 month: 56.8 %<\/p>\n<p>What I find interesting is two things.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The &#8220;curve&#8221; flattens quicker than I anticipated. After recalculating the numbers it&#8217;s not cut in half every day, but the curve still rapidly flattens<\/li>\n<li>A little over half the devices have been upgraded one month after the release.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be wary of what to conclude based on this, but for future reference I&#8217;ll just note that getting a new version out to all users\/devices is going to take a lot longer than I first anticipated. If only 3.3 % upgrades every week from now, which is the difference between week 3 and 4, it&#8217;ll take more than 4 months total, for all devices to get upgraded.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just something to think about \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, About a month ago I released a new version of the 10,000 app. It contained a few things but nothing ground breaking. Nonetheless I had some assumptions about how fast users would upgrade their app, more precisely I expected &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/neurons.dk\/?p=526\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,39,40],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-10-000","tag-new-version","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neurons.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neurons.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neurons.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neurons.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neurons.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/neurons.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"http:\/\/neurons.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neurons.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neurons.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neurons.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}