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____/ bbgruff on Tuesday 28 Jun 2011 20:09 : \____
> On Tuesday 28 June 2011 18:41 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> 500,000 Android device activations per day
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>> | This number is, of course, great news for Google and the
>> | Android platform. With such a large number of activations
>> | per day, it really shows how popular the mobile operating
>> | system is around the globe, and how much demand there is for
>> | Android devices overall. Not only is this number high, but itâs
>> | also a more true representation of consumer activity as it directly
>> | relates to users purchasing (and activating) their devices, as
>> | opposed to numbers referring to shipments (to retailers), as
>> | companies often provide.
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>> http://www.neowin.net/news/500000-android-device-activations-per-day
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>> The trolls in this newsgroup too are (unintended) Linux users.
>
> Oh dear Roy - I'm wrong again :-)
> I spent months telling our Linux Detractors that Google was activating
> 300,000 Androids per day, only to find a week or two ago that I was wrong,
> and that the number was 400,000 a day.
> I corrected that of course, and have been telling them recently that it's
> 400,000 a day - but it looks as though I'm wrong again, and it's 500,000 a
> day. Ah well - can't be right all the time:-(
>
> That figure must equate roughly with the rate of Windows 7 sales, in
> fact....
The pace of activations keeps going up at the pace that Rubin states in his tweets. The
patent extortion from Microsoft and its patent trolls is too little, too late.
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