{"id":4015,"date":"2011-12-20T23:46:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T04:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2014-03-11T19:29:31","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T23:29:31","slug":"the-smartphone-wars-andy-rubin-brings-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4015","title":{"rendered":"The Smartphone Wars:  Andy Rubin brings the news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over on Google+, Andy Rubin says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThere are now over 700,000 Android devices activated every day&#8230;and for those wondering, we count each device only once (ie, we don&#8217;t count re-sold devices), and &#8220;activations&#8221; means you go into a store, buy a device, put it on the network by subscribing to a wireless service.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This does clear up some points people have been wondering about, but it raises larger questions.  Like, why aren&#8217;t those users showing up in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catb.org\/esr\/comscore\/\">comScore statistics<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>700K users per day ought to translate to about 21M a month.  But Android has only been gaining 2M U.S. smartphone users and change per month.  If comScore isn&#8217;t way undercounting, that implies than a bit less than 9\/10ths of daily Android activations are tablets or overseas.<\/p>\n<p>That percentage seems pretty high to me.  But I don&#8217;t have any alternate theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on Google+, Andy Rubin says: There are now over 700,000 Android devices activated every day&#8230;and for those wondering, we count each device only once (ie, we don&#8217;t count re-sold devices), and &#8220;activations&#8221; means you go into a store, buy a device, put it on the network by subscribing to a wireless service. This does&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4015\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Smartphone Wars:  Andy Rubin brings the news<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-4015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-smartphone-wars","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5432,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions\/5432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}