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That is a lot of phones. What does it actually mean though? Android is fast becomming the lowest common denominator for a phone OS?
by jackvalentine 16y ago
That is a lot of phones. What does it actually mean though? Android is fast becomming the lowest common denominator for a phone OS?
- stanleydrew 16y agoOne can only hope that something with a web browser as good as android's will become the lowest common denominator for a phone OS.
- megablast 16y agoYes, for some reason they do not mention the number of Android phones sold a day, though this is still an interesting number. Apple, Google and Microsoft are all playing the numbers game, Apple only talks about iOs devices sold (not iPhone, iPad, etc...), Google talk about activations, and Microsoft are happy to talk about kinnect numbers, but not their phones.
- Seth_Kriticos 16y agoThe difference is, that iOS devices have a much stronger bounding to Apple and can be put in direct revenue numbers. For Google, the royalties and sales shares of the platform is not as important as having it out there, seamlessly integrating into their online offering. As such, they don't even have these numbers, they just see how many people connect. For them it basically means: "we have 300k more people every day who are surfing our cloud".
- GHFigs 16y agoApple only talks about iOs devices sold (not iPhone, iPad, etc...) "...14.1 million iPhones in the quarter...4.19 million iPads during the quarter..." -- http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/10/18results.html http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/10/18results.html