I was reading Fast Company’s post titled, ‘Most Popular Android Apps for November 2008‘.  Medialets created their own ordering (i.e. not the order of popularity Google uses):

So, if you look at applications by popularity in the Android Market you will find that The Weather Channel is the MOST popular application.  MySpace comes in third and Pac Man isnt near the top.  ShopSavvy (our application and why I care) is second.  Medialets wont’ return our calls and I have confirmed they are not getting any inside intel from Google or T-Mobile.  Their numbers are bunk.  Anyone from Medialets care to comment?  Love to chat further!

UPDATE: So Eric Litman the CEO from Medialets called me no less than 24 minutes after I posted this (Woot to Eric and Medialets).  He explained that they are pulling numbers from the ‘download range’ instead of the application popularity page from the Market.  I can understand how his team came up with the rankings – i.e. Pac-Man on top, but I think this has more to do with quirks in the market.  I didn’t pull my punches with the title of this post, maybe I should chill out a little – sorry Eric.  Application popularity as defined by downloads can be easily pulled up by selecting Market, then All Applications and then Sort by Popularity.  Here is the list:

1. The Weather Channel
2. ShopSavvy
3. MySpace Mobile
4. US Yellow Pages (really?)
5. Free Dictionary
6. Ringdroid
7. DailyHoroscope
8. CompareEverywhere
9. Backgrounds and
10. Imeem Music
11. Movies and Shoptimes
12. Barcode Scanner
13. Shazam
14. WikiMobile Encyclopedia
15. Pro Basketball
16. VIdeo Player
17. Pro Footbal Live
18. AK Notepad
19. PicSay
20. AccuWeather.com
21. Bartender
22. Flashlight
23. Tanslate
24. fBook – Facebook
25. Power Manager
26. Stopwatch
27. T-Mobile HotSpot
28. Mobile Banking
29. Restaurant Guide
30. Note Pad
31. Weather Bug
32. Pkt Auctions eBay
33. OI Notepad
34. College Football Live
35. Voice Recoder
36. Tip Calculator
37. Rings Extended
38. Magic 8-Ball

and so on…

Just to be clear, I did not try to contact Medialets today.  When I said, “Medialets won’t return our calls…” I was referring to calls I made to the company back in October when they wrote a post titled, “Android Market Unleshed“.  The post talked about the ‘Drivers of Android Market’ relative to downloads and popularity, but failed to mention our application at all.  I was annoyed and called the company – calls that we were never returned.  Here was the graphic that failed to include ShopSavvy despite the fact that we were number 2:

I even posted a comment to their post, but they did not moderate it (i.e. it never appeared).  So when I saw that they had another ‘popularity post’ that didn’t accurately reflect the current standings in the market I felt like I had to post my thoughts.