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wassup
(Posts: 565; Member since: 23 Jun 2011)
woot woot!
android will continue dominating :D
lets hope it continues
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Yeeee
(Posts: 190; Member since: 02 Aug 2011)
Now that more phones are being activated each day i bet the percentage is less now. I mean 200,000 extra activations in 13 days?
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Sniggly
(Posts: 7297; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
Insane growth. And to think Steve Ballmer laughed at Android when Google announced it.
*punches Ballmer in the face*
Ah. I feel better.
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remixfa
(Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
he just has one of those faces... lol. i bet he was the jackass in school that no one liked.
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Sniggly
(Posts: 7297; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
That's what I'm saying! It's just an irresistible urge I get when I see him! And he exacerbates the problem when he opens his mouth.
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biophone
(Posts: 1900; Member since: 15 Jun 2011)
He bashed both ios and android at release. Shows what he knows. Truly no vision.
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Droid_X_Doug
(Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)
Nothing like Ballmer having to announce the sales failures of WP7 every quarter. They are going to have to announce WP8 to just get the attention off the WP7 sales failures. Even with Nokia releasing WP7 handsets, there is no way MS is going to approach the activation levels of Android. At this point, Android has run away and his from WP7.
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Goldeneye
(Posts: 401; Member since: 22 Jan 2011)
This is something Microsoft should be happy about the more Androids get activated the more money MS makes
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remixfa
(Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
And apple was just bragging that they have sold 240 million iphones to date for the last 4 or so years. Basically android will do that in 240 days. Yup, apple definitely will get close to android with the i4s release.. lol
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quang le (unregistered)
250m iOS, not iphones. Iphones probably 60-70% of that
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joaolx
(Posts: 364; Member since: 16 Aug 2011)
300 million iOS devices to be correct. xD
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joaolx
(Posts: 364; Member since: 16 Aug 2011)
You should know that Apple has only made 5 iPhones. Comparing to the hundreds of Android devices and the fact that there are several point prices(from free to 300$ on contract) what the iPhone has achieved is amazing.
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ledbetterp3
(Posts: 467; Member since: 31 Aug 2011)
Hey, this isdnt on topic but on the costco website at&t cell phone section, for the motorola atrix 4g, isnt that a picture of the motorola atrix 2??
heres the link:
http://membershipwireless.com/index.cfm/utm_source/costco/utm_medium/landing
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Sniggly
(Posts: 7297; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
Yes, that does look like it, esp. because the image changes when you click to go to the main Atrix page. Good catch. :)
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ledbetterp3
(Posts: 467; Member since: 31 Aug 2011)
I did, lol but whats the point, what do i do with the screenshot? Do I bate to it?
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protozeloz
(Posts: 5393; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
Send it to a website, monday will be slow
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protozeloz
(Posts: 5393; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
Now all google has to do is keep them customers happy and that number will remain high for a while.
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Wyn66
(Posts: 7; Member since: 09 Aug 2011)
Seriously, people. C'mon. We know there are a lotta Android phones in the market and that's great. But, let's do the math here. In July Google claimed 550k/day. Now, the above estimate says 800k/day. That's an increase of 250k/day activations over a two month time period.
If it does reach 1 million by October 20th, that's another 200k/day activations in a single month. So, at 1 million daily activations, in a year's time that's 365 million activations. That's 1.095 billion in three years. At that rate, the entirety of the Earth's population will own Androids in a mere 20 years. That's providing it doesn't increase by 100% every 3 months like the article claims. If it does the time will be cut to roughly 6 years.
Uh... that's highly improbable. The above also doesn't take into account that not every individual on the planet has access to, the means to, or the ability to use a smartphone. It sounds great but... really?
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Sniggly
(Posts: 7297; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
I don't think that the argument here is that the growth will continue into perpetuity. Of course at some point we're going to see a stall in growth, but we haven't reached saturation yet and there is still plenty of room for growth.
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MichaelHeller
(Posts: 2693; Member since: 26 May 2011)
I certainly wouldn't expect the line to keep rising as Degusta has it. Obviously, it will level out eventually. I certainly don't expect it to hit the 3.5 million per day he has projected by the end of the year. But, I wouldn't be surprised to find out in the next earnings call that Android is around the 800-900k per day range, and at 1 million per day by the end of the year.
The number has room to rise a fair bit, because there are still quite a lot of feature phone users switching to smart phones. No one is trying to extrapolate this data farther than this year.
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xenover
(Posts: 174; Member since: 27 May 2011)
I can't wait to get my first Android phone.
THEN I CAN BE ON OF THE MILLIONS!!!
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hawk62
(Posts: 320; Member since: 21 Nov 2009)
One of the millions with a phone that has browser that force closes, a app market that barely works, and phones that dont get updated! Yeah you
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Sniggly
(Posts: 7297; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
That's only if you're a user who bricks three brand new DROID Xs in a row.
Let's test your claims:
1) Something very rarely if ever force closes on my phone. I can't even recall the last time the browser did that on me.
2) the market works just fine. I download new apps and updates off it almost every day without a sweat.
3) Two out of the three Android phones I've had for any length of time (had a fourth for two weeks because I tried then had to drop a carrier) have received major OS updates. The first, my X, had two major OS updates. Once to Group and once to Gingerbread. Both times when bugs have popped up from the updates, subsequent updates have been released to fix those bugs. My Atrix, the other phone, has received one major OS update (and the model had a couple of minor updates before I bought one), and so far hasn't exhibited any bugs that make me think another major update needs to be rushed out.
The third phone was a CLIQ, which, quite frankly, is a CLIQ. But seriously, it was released at the dawn of Android and worked just fine as a basic Android phone with Cupcake.
By now if you buy a new Android phone you can usually tell which ones will actually get updated with new versions of the OS and which won't.
How does it feel being proven wrong, Hawk?
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protozeloz
(Posts: 5393; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
Hawk will be hawk he is an idiot, I rarely doubt he could brick a droid x unless he did it trying to install a custom rom and even that way it can be Fixed in 30 minutes, if he wants the latest version of android all he has to do is get a nexus :)
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Sniggly
(Posts: 7297; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
Hawk broke the laws of physics. His touch made three brand new DROID Xs defective, back when he tried them. That's what he told me about a year ago, anyway.
He also magically never thought that Verizon would charge money for tethering to a computer via wifi, and called them liars for this.
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gallitoking
(Posts: 4718; Member since: 17 May 2011)
you are one of the biggest defender of Adroid.. I want to hear some one whom are not fanboys.. for a change,,,,,
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ledbetterp3
(Posts: 467; Member since: 31 Aug 2011)
he only major update phones that sniggly is talking about need now is ICS.
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Heatfan316
(Posts: 533; Member since: 21 Aug 2011)
Yeah well at least we don't have to plug our phones into a computer and wait 6 and half hours for a simple update, our phones can make phone calls, our phones have real gorilla glass and don't scratch and can survive drops unlike that fake glass piece of s**t, overpriced application launcher that wants to be called a smartphone. Yeah and what happens when your phone freezes up on ya, oh yeah, plug it back into the computer and wait another 6 and half hours, ya crapplebot
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gallitoking
(Posts: 4718; Member since: 17 May 2011)
wow heat fan... how is your saturday going?... i am in a good mood so i will kill you with kindess today.... come to Phoenix.. so we can play basketball... I will let you be lebron :-)
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iHateCrapple
(Posts: 734; Member since: 12 Feb 2010)
Explain yourself, gallito. I don't understand.
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Heatfan316
(Posts: 533; Member since: 21 Aug 2011)
How are you doing galli, sorry I had to get a little bit ignorant there, that guy hawk really gets on my nerves you know how it is every point of view is different.
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gallitoking
(Posts: 4718; Member since: 17 May 2011)
well dont worry dude.. there are so many ignorant people that i even get confused with one....
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iHateCrapple
(Posts: 734; Member since: 12 Feb 2010)
What do you mean, gallito?
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remixfa
(Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
i dont know.. i think he's confused. he sure sounds confused..lol
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protozeloz
(Posts: 5393; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
Ignore the previous comment, he forgot his medication. You. May want to go for the nexus, or I heard samsung is doing well too, my recommendation buy in november-december that way you can see some reviews and end up winning
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roboto (unregistered)
that's mean
by the end of this year
Android : iphone = 3 : 1
and PA still thinks apple success???
what an isheep
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MichaelHeller
(Posts: 2693; Member since: 26 May 2011)
As we've said before, Android sales have passed Apple, and are increasing, but the iPhone still has a lot more overall marketshare than Android.
Also, as we've stated before, the term "success" means different things for each company. Apple finds its success in the highest profit margins (which it has) and Google finds success in market share (which it is taking at an incredible rate).
Both devices have a loyal following. And, both platforms have their pros and cons.
We're sorry if you read bias in anything we write, but we see it as giving credit where credit is due.
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DeviantDroid
(Posts: 51; Member since: 28 Apr 2011)
From now on I say unless someone can post as a registered user.... We ignore said people and their ignorance..... Atleast be yourself when you look stupid....
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Mooooo
(Posts: 212; Member since: 27 Aug 2011)
All I know is that I am adding two more when Prime appears and a hard case appears for it.
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jacko (unregistered)
+ 4 here :P
HTC Evo 3D
HTC Sensation
Samsung Galaxy S II
LG Optimus 3D
Dell Streak (On The Shelf)
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roscuthiii
(Posts: 1978; Member since: 18 Jul 2010)
Looks like it'll be Prime for me, maybe Vigor, and the Rhyme for my lady.
The Rhyme charm thing worked. She saw it and wanted it, and here I was thinking the Rhyme was going to be a bust. I did show her some of the Prime teasers and her eyes lit up. It looked like they said, "Birthmas!" (Clarification: her birthday is right around X-mas.)
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LionStone
(Posts: 594; Member since: 10 Dec 2010)
+3 here...Pops and the stepmom will upgrade to smartphones finally. Stratosphere for pops, Rhyme (or possibly iP4s - but the screen may be too small :-( sorry Apple, is it SO hard to make a 4" screen!) for momma and the Vigor or Nexus for me :-)
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cupcake
(Posts: 106; Member since: 15 Apr 2010)
Yeah I've noticed my customres who like the Rhyme are: girly girls, older ladies.. younger girls. Mostly women who don't know much about technology.
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L3610n
(Posts: 47; Member since: 01 Jul 2011)
Because it's purple? HAHA
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koki (unregistered)
fantastic... though i dont like android 'coz all the bugs... been using android devices but jumping ship to wp7 which is now at par if not slightly better than android/ios.
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L3610n
(Posts: 47; Member since: 01 Jul 2011)
Awesome for Android. Just wish that more developers would create on par apps for it like on the Appstore. Even if they had ads on it. I only have the demo of Axe to Face on my iPhone.. I want the full but Ad filled version on my EVO!
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peterpeter
(Posts: 1; Member since: 21 Jan 2012)
What constitutes an activation? Does factory resets count? android needs a lot of factory resets.
