“Google reported a new activation rate milestone: 1 million/day,” Horace Dediu reports for Asymco. “The rate of activations has been increasing steadily which leads to a question: how high can it go?”
“The answer is to take sales (shipments actually) per category and cast the data as “activations,'” Dediu reports. “Defined as ‘activations’ device and computers are being adopted at the rate of about 5.6 million units per day.”
Deidu reports, “As a percent of total activations, Android is running at about 15% and OS is at 10%. Android has already overtaken Windows activations and with the new iPhone, it’s likely iOS will do as well this year.”
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