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Re: 700,000 Android devices activated each day

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Post by rjd »

ars wrote: post #37
rjd wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indded, one of my friends went to buy a windows phone recently, c# dev looking for a phone he could work on. The clerk literally told him they only have display models and don't hold stock and that he'd been told not to push them. The clerk couldn't even organise for a windows phone to arrive at the store so my friend decided he'd try learning obj-c and walked out with an iphone 3G (as said dev is a jaded ex-java ent…

Seriously? They didn't have the phone he wanted so he let them sell him something else entirely?

From what I got told he asked which store had one and he was told none of them do, he asked to order one and they said they wouldn't from the store but he could order online. The guy is a grumpy troll of a man so I would of imagined him loosing his temper and just demanding something else. I know his old phone had stopped working so he did have a little pressure to get a phone ASAP, but yep I raised my eye brows as well considering he is a known to rant about Apple (but I assume the hate is less than what he holds for java).

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Post by jonknee »

rjd wrote: post #32

Does anyone else look at these numbers and instantly think of the shear volume of waste? With iphones thats a well over million per day. With most people already owning a phone thats a lot of superseded devices to deal with. Thats a lot of chemical waste...

There are 4.6 billion mobile phone owners. A million a day isn't a lot.

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Post by rimantas »

azakai wrote: post #15

It's remarkable the legal lengths to which Apple and Microsoft are going to try to stop Android, but it looks like they are having little or no effect. Lawyers get paid, some silly patents get worked around, but that's about it it seems.

  > It's remarkable the legal lengths to which Apple and
  > Microsoft are going to try to stop Android,
Microsoft is making money with each Android phone sold, so I am not so sure what legal lengths are you talking about.

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Post by gbog »

pbreit wrote: post #39

I'm sure the number is accurate and kudos to Google but, wow, who the heck is activating all these devices? From the people I run into I would estimate the iOS:Android ratio at 10 or 20 to 1 (San Francisco).

Observation biais.

Estimations from China:

- In my office, a Web company: Android vs iOS is maybe 30 - 70

- In the subway, Android vs iOS is more like 80 - 20.

Re: 700,000 Android devices activated each day

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Post by akashshah »

pbreit wrote: post #39

I'm sure the number is accurate and kudos to Google but, wow, who the heck is activating all these devices? From the people I run into I would estimate the iOS:Android ratio at 10 or 20 to 1 (San Francisco).

In my team, in the last 3 months, 6 people have bought Androids vs 2 buying the iphone 4s

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Post by vosper »

untog wrote: post #12
byoung2 wrote: post #2

I wonder what number of distinct users is. Once you go Android, you tend to stay there. Between my wife and me, for example, we have had 6 Android phones (1 HTC Hero, 2 HTC Evo 4Gs, 3 HTC Amaze 4Gs), and 5th Android tablet (2 Samsung Galaxy Tabs, 1 Asus Transformer, 1 Acer Iconia, and 1 T-Mobile G-Slate). I'm sure each activation was recorded, but there isn't really a way to deactivate a device. Even a factory reset…

Once you go Android, you tend to stay there. I think that's conventional wisdom- and I think it's wrong. I went from Android to WP7, because I am a weird UI obsessive. But my girlfriend has an Android and is due an upgrade- and she's sick of it. She's likely going to get an iPhone.

Being "a weird UI obsessive" is a very small subset of users, given that if you asked a typical smartphone user what "UI" means a majority of them probably couldn't tell you.
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