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To: sylvester80 who wrote (9424)9/8/2011 11:58:17 AM
From: pyslent  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 32692
 
"In the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Japan, Latin America, Korea, Asia etc... is MORE than 5:1"

I have no idea where you are going with this. Forget the countries, show me the numbers you are using to calculate > 5:1.

I'll show you my math.

At 550k/d Android sells 49.5 million handsets+tablets over 90 days globally.
At 600k/d, Android sells 54 million handsets+ tablets over 90 days globally.
Neither of those global sales numbers are 5 times bigger than the 20 million that Apple sells in a quarter.

So when you said: "Android have many choices and together they outsell the iPhone by 5:1," how can that be true? I calculate 2.7:1.

* Note that the Android activation figures include tablet sales, which represent rounding errors, of course.



To: sylvester80 who wrote (9424)9/8/2011 12:07:47 PM
From: pyslent  Respond to of 32692
 
The Sylvestor conversion factor.

You said Asus sold 2.5 million Transformers, but it was really 1 million.
You said Android outsells iOS 5:1, but it's really 2.5:1.
You said Samsung sold 5 million 7 inch Galaxy Tabs, but it's probably closer to 3 million, generously.

Do you always inflate Android numbers by 2X? How does this type of self-delusion constitute due diligence for investment purposes? Can we agree that the thread would benefit from a little intellectual honesty?


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