Re: Google Calendar Caldav support dropped?

On 17.03.2013 14:36, Peter Lairo wrote:
> In an earlier post, Phillip said: "Lightning has 1.2M average daily
> users in total."

We are speaking about different extensions.

Lightning: about 1.200.000 daily users
Provider for Google Calendar: about 300.000 daily users

> Does that mean that addons.mozilla.org only tracks the number of
> downloaded copies (per month?) and that four times more than that are
> using Lightning? It seems that one of those two methods for counting
> "users" is very inaccurate.

No, not downloads. Average download for Lightning is about 6000 per day. 
To quote from addons.mozilla.org:

> What are daily users? Add-ons downloaded from this site check for
> updates once per day. The total number of these update pings is known
> as Active Daily Users.

You have to add the user count that did not install Lightning via 
addons.mozilla.org, e.g. the many users that installed Lightning from 
its operating system repositories like Ubuntu.

For Lightning the statistics are public available: 
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/lightning/statistics/

>>> https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/pricing The
>>> Google Calendar API has a courtesy limit of 10,000 queries per
>>> day. If you need capacity beyond this courtesy limit, you can
>>> send a request from the Quotas pane of the Google APIs Console.
>
> Is that 10,000 queries per day *per user* or 10,000 queries per day
> *per app*? If it's per user, how close to 10,000 queries per day does
> a typical user get?
>
>> Unfortunately Google seems very restricted regarding information
>> how much money they will take to allow more.
>
> Who would pay for this? Each user or the app owner?
>
> I have a bad feeling about this current situation with Google.

I have got similar questions and feelings.

Stefan