It’s great that you have gathered and released data on the Mobile platforms, and Unity currently supports 24 platforms with only 3 being mobile (12.5%)*.
So could Unity provide data across all the platforms it supports, please?
*mobile as in smart phone/tablet, other platforms may be mobile/portable in nature.
They won’t be able to provide data for every single platform because at the very least the consoles are behind NDAs.
Indeed, and the other distribution points are pretty fragmented to build a decent picture. Possibly Steam, assuming that their analytics even track data like engine being used. Mobile is easy to track because there are limited distribution points, and the TOS for those platforms include data collection already.
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That has been the case, and a pretty well known fact for a long time. iPhones upgrades were incentivized by mobile carriers from the start.
What exactly do you mean by “provide data”? What data do you want? What do you want it for? If I just go up to someone at work and say “hey, can you give me data?” they’re either going to ask what I want data about, or they’re going to give me something random. “Data” could be anything.
Heh, I “upgraded” my iPhone 4S when Apple “incentivised” me to do so by updating its usability away. My upgrade was to a competing product.
That was a shame, too, because I really liked Apple’s design and everything else about the product. It just sucks that they’re treated so disposably. I think it was only ~2 years old the day it crashed with nothing but a single web site open and I decided it was time to swing by the local electronics store. (The battery life was also plummeting. I understand that batteries eventually die and aren’t always predictable, but why not make it replaceable?)
This. I’ve never actually paid for an iPhone. The phone company simply gives them to me every couple of years, despite the fact that the old ones work perfectly well.
On the other hand I pay for every tablet and computer I’ve brought. Those things have to keep running until they die.
Yea, I’m not sure what other data they could provide that would be useful. The mobile numbers the collected is valuable because they have such a huge pool, it is statistically meaningful. Though only in terms of hardware. Sales data, the market skews much differently.