The Smartphone Wars: a bit of Christmas cheer
<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>
<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>
<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>
<p>UPDATE: My spike-percentage calculation was wrong. Way too low.</p>
