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Old 12-25-2011, 12:13 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default App rankings still changing, even during shutdown.

Look at Sports #1. It just changed and we've been shutdown for over a day now. Are the rankings changing even during the shutdown this year?

This could be interesting...
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Look at Sports #1. It just changed and we've been shutdown for over a day now. Are the rankings changing even during the shutdown this year?

This could be interesting...
Yes the rankings are live they must have fixed that issue. You can use MajicRank and see the rank changes.
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Yes the rankings are live they must have fixed that issue. You can use MajicRank and see the rank changes.
Not changing now.
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Not changing now.
Yes it is just checked again.
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Of course they change.

Why shouldn't they?

It has nothing to do with the lockdown.

The lockdown meant to be for locking developers out from iTunes Connect, not users downloading apps.
Ranks are determined on downloads, not on iTunes Connect being accessible or not.

Think logical!
Use Applyzer to see your apps' hourly ranking.
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Of course they change.

Why shouldn't they?

It has nothing to do with the lockdown.

The lockdown meant to be for locking developers out from iTunes Connect, not users downloading apps.
Ranks are determined on downloads, not on iTunes Connect being accessible or not.

Think logical!
Use Applyzer to see your apps' hourly ranking.
rankings were locked down last year
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looks like the rankings are locked.
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Of course they change.

Why shouldn't they?

It has nothing to do with the lockdown.

The lockdown meant to be for locking developers out from iTunes Connect, not users downloading apps.
Ranks are determined on downloads, not on iTunes Connect being accessible or not.

Think logical!
Use Applyzer to see your apps' hourly ranking.
Rankings were locked in 2008, 2009, and 2010. Them not being locked in 2011 is completely new.
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Of course they change.

Why shouldn't they?

It has nothing to do with the lockdown.

The lockdown meant to be for locking developers out from iTunes Connect, not users downloading apps.
Ranks are determined on downloads, not on iTunes Connect being accessible or not.

Think logical!
Use Applyzer to see your apps' hourly ranking.
funny, guess you're new...
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Rankings were locked in 2008, 2009, and 2010. Them not being locked in 2011 is completely new.
I really do not recall rankings being locked down in the past, must have been that I didn't care at all?
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funny, guess you're new...
Look at my post counts. This is my third account on this forum after being banned twice

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Rankings were locked in 2008, 2009, and 2010. Them not being locked in 2011 is completely new.
Alpine Crawler Ranking 20-30 december 2010. Seems not really locked to me:



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well rankings have definitely stalled now.
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well rankings have definitely stalled now.
Nope still moving and has not stopped moving anytime I have checked throughout the shutdown.
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Nope still moving and has not stopped moving anytime I have checked throughout the shutdown.
Rankings have been locked for me since yesterday
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Rankings have been locked for me since yesterday
Strange maybe its certain sections. I am in the US and my apps are in Reference and Education and they are moving in all markets just checked again and they have moved in the last 15 min so maybe its stalled on other sections.
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Unbelievable that some people don't even believe, what they see with their own eyes.

Read my lips: there is no ranking lockdown and there never was one!

My apps move up and down in EVERY COUNTRY every hour every day in applyzer.

This is the chart from Appfigures for Alpine Crawler World.

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Unbelievable that some people don't even believe, what they see with their own eyes.

Read my lips: there is no ranking lockdown and there never was one!

My apps move up and down in EVERY COUNTRY every hour every day in applyzer.

This is the chart from Appfigures for Alpine Crawler World.

I also see the same using MajicRank for all my apps but who knows there may be more variables than we know. But i agree there has been no freeze this year.
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I've noticed every once in a while ranks and review count get stalled, then takes a few days to correct. I was thinking this was from an overload in the system.

That's what I'm seeing now.
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The game category was locked on 25th.. now it seems to move a bit.
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I see also changes in appfigures and iTunes but no change on the app store on the device. There are also no new Reviews since 24th.

Does someone know when its over?
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A quick look at Appshopper shows at least the top 200 apps are frozen now. No movement in the last few hours. Going into different categories shows a little movement in apps that aren't in the top 200 overall.
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A quick look at Appshopper shows at least the top 200 apps are frozen now. No movement in the last few hours. Going into different categories shows a little movement in apps that aren't in the top 200 overall.
Reviews are closed and have been since Christmas eve, here in the UK anyways.

There is certainly no ranking freeze in the lifestyle category on either the iPhone or iPad store.
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Top 25 in sports has been locked for a few days
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And what sense would it make to lock ranking only in certain countries in certain categories?

Next time you will say, YOUR rankings were locked by an evil conspiracy of your competitors....

Appannie shows that there were daily changes in Fantasy Monster. If you would use Applyzer, I am sure you would see your changes hourly too.

But you are right. Probably there is a guy at Apple, who is paid for sitting there during holidays in a chamber with a ******* big switch whit the text "random locker" and he switches it bored on and off in every few hours. That must be it.

Don't you recognize, how stupid you sound?
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i see that the appstore on the iPhone is frozen, but not the iTunes ranks. Its not the same. So appannie see 'wrong' datas

For example. My app "super jump world" is in denmark since 23rd rank one on the iPhone but not in iTunes. Check it out ....

I think the rank on the device is much more important than the iTunes ranks.

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