{"id":4024,"date":"2011-12-28T07:52:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T12:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4024"},"modified":"2014-03-11T19:26:23","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T23:26:23","slug":"the-smartphone-wars-a-bit-of-christmas-cheer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4024","title":{"rendered":"The Smartphone Wars: a bit of Christmas cheer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Google+, Andy Rubin <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/112599748506977857728\/posts\/WmkvJx7UL9\">reports<\/a>: &#8220;There were 3.7M Android activations on 12\/24 and 12\/25.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a 170% spike over the 700K activations per-day Rubin announced on 20 Dec. I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4015\">previously observed<\/a> that only about 1 in 10 of Android activations show up in the smartphone statistics for the U.S. so Android is probably looking at about 370K new U.S. smartphone users for Christmas, the way comScore counts them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing Apple won&#8217;t be releasing the corresponding number, because on previous trends it would only be about 185K Christmas users for their smartphone &#8211; and that wouldn&#8217;t look good.  Well, it could be worse; they could be RIM.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: My spike-percentage calculation was wrong. Way too low.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Google+, Andy Rubin reports: &#8220;There were 3.7M Android activations on 12\/24 and 12\/25.&#8221; That&#8217;s a 170% spike over the 700K activations per-day Rubin announced on 20 Dec. I&#8217;ve previously observed that only about 1 in 10 of Android activations show up in the smartphone statistics for the U.S. so Android is probably looking at&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4024\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Smartphone Wars: a bit of Christmas cheer<\/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-4024","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\/4024","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=4024"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5429,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions\/5429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}