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I have a slight issue with Microsoft saying 'look how many licenses we sold!' As there's no direct way to know if they're talking about licenses in the hands of
by nicholassmith 14y ago
I have a slight issue with Microsoft saying 'look how many licenses we sold!' As there's no direct way to know if they're talking about licenses in the hands of consumers, or licenses sold by the yard to OEMS currently sat in a box.
- bntly 14y agothey always have and always will use that metric - it impresses the users. It probably won't impress developers though.
- nicholassmith 14y agoProbably not, at least when Apple says "Hey, we sold Xmillion copies of Mountain Lion" you know that they're pretty much talking about how many people have installed it. Same with Android and iOS when they talk about how many activations they've seen, as a developer you instantly get the number of users you're going to potentially have as an audience. Juicing the numbers is not going to woo developers who can see right through it.