Marketplace/AppStats

This is where the Marketplace will pull data from metrics sent from Firefox OS phones and use it in multiple ways.

Overview

The data coming in is proposed to look like this: https://wiki.mozilla.org/FirefoxOS/Metrics/App_Usage. We think we can use that data to improve two key areas of the marketplace - app lists that the user sees and stats to the developer.

Users

If we took the data from the metrics platform, could we improve:

• popular apps
• recommended apps

Possible things to note are that the data will contain:

• mcc / mnc
• locale

Meaning that popular and recommended lists could be tailored to the specific network, region or locale? Maybe?

There are multiple uses of this data including, improving the popular and recommended lists.

Users UX

As a first pass to show the utility of this to users, we'd implement a simple listing of apps, with some sorts and filters:

http://people.mozilla.org/~ehunt/appusage/app_usage_v1.0.pdf

This would be accessible at a URL, or by a Web Activity, but not in the navigation.

Developers

For developers we've always struggled because we can't show developers exactly how their apps are being used, or any sort of daily data. This solves that and allows us to show even more such as:

• usage per locale
• usage per region
• usage by device type and version
• usage by device size

That stuff is really useful.

Technical bits

How do we pull the data from metrics? To be discussed.

Key issues:

• the data is sent daily, but not if the user is offline. Its queued up, which means that
• Platforms: Firefox OS (yes), Android (no), Desktop (no)

Tracking bugs

Tracking bug: 1129060

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