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____/ Sneaky Weasel on Wednesday 21 Sep 2011 02:30 : \____
> On 09/19/2011 12:29 PM, TomB wrote:
>> On 2011-09-19, the following emerged from the brain of bbgruff:
>>> On Monday 19 September 2011 12:17 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> With 500,000 activations a day, Android is becoming the dominant
>>>> player in the mobile eco-system
>>>> `----
>>>
>>> Do try to stay with the plot, Roy. Some figures for you:-
>>>
>>> 23 Jun 2010 160.000 new activations per day
>>> 08 Aug 2010 200,000
>>> 09 Dec 2010 300,000
>>> 10 May 2011 400,000
>>> 28 Jun 2011 500,000
>>> 14 Jul 2011 550,000
>>>
>>> In addition, the statement was made in July that the rate of growth
>>> in new activations continues at 4.4% per *week* ! Even
>>> conservatively, that puts the activation rate now at 750,000 per
>>> day. In fact, Android sales/day have probably now overtaken Windows
>>> sales/day.
>>
>> Damn, the popularity of Android is just plain crazy. Can you imagine
>> what it will do to the world of computing once we'll see more devices
>> like the Asus Transformer, perhaps even with the possibility of using
>> an Android powered tablet/notebook in a more traditional desktop
>> setting? The impact will be *huge*.
>>
>> I know that we, Linux geeks, have been waiting for the death of
>> Microsoft for a bloody long time (come on, don't deny it - you know
>> you did :-p ), and this may be just it.
>>
>> I just hope that Google will stay true to its initial idea of keeping
>> Android open, and that Ice Cream Sandwich will be completely open
>> sourced again (so also to the general public - not only to a select
>> group of OEMs). Then perhaps one day we can say that the most popular
>> 'desktop' operating system on earth is open source :-)
>>
> Microsoft and Apple are yesterday. Linux is tomorrow.
And today. It's already extremely prevalent.
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