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To: adorno
It will take time, but, in about 3-4 years, Android will be a distant third to Windows RT/WP8, and to iOS.

lol, android is adding 1.3 million devices a day, and if sales continue at that rate will have over a biilion devices by years end.

you may be right, but i doubt apple ios will ever dominate like they did a few years ago. There are too many competitors.

186 posted on 04/16/2013 8:05:00 PM PDT by quimby
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To: quimby
android is adding 1.3 million devices a day, and if sales continue at that rate will have over a biilion devices by years end.

Think for a moment.

For years now, the claim has been that, Android is activating more than 800 million devices. By now, Android should have run out of customers to activate, and should have at least 4 or 5 billion users worldwide. Yet, the hype is that, Android is still activating a billion or more each year. In another 2 or 3 years, they are going to have to expand to other consumers in other parts of the universe, since they will have run out of potential customers here on Earth.

What Android and iPhones are doing, is constantly deactivating smartphones from current users, and activating new smartphones for the same users who want to get new smartphones and/or new cell-plans. iPhones, for example, has a lot of "new" sales every 6 months or so, with every new version of the iPhone. Yet, about half of those are current customers who feel the need to get the latest-and-greatest iPhone. If all of the new iPhones sold were to all new customers, then there would be at least a billion iPhone users out there by now, but we know there aren't that many out there.

So, look at statistics with a more critical analysis, because, things aren't as they first appear.
203 posted on 04/17/2013 11:15:19 AM PDT by adorno (Y)
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