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To: sylvester80 who wrote (16568)	2/3/2012 7:25:59 PM
From: pyslent	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 32680

Yes, very impressive, and very surprising considering Google's proclamation of 700,000 activations per day at the tail end of the quarter. 82 million over the quarter is closer to 900k/ day over the entire quarter. Also impressive is the whole year shipments of 237 million, which is close to your prriction of 250 million. Android penetrated the mid tier much more effectively than I expected. Still, as it pertains to this thread, I don't see how Apple's business was affected one way or another by Android. Apple did pretty darn great in securing 75% of the handset industry profits despite the Android growth in market share. Apple does not compete in the market segments where Android is growing.

To: sylvester80 who wrote (16568)	2/3/2012 10:58:57 PM
From: zax	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32680

Apple continues to lead in the bug ridden OS department. Seems likely due to some OS X code having been reused in and shared with iOS. iOS apps crash more than Android apps, study shows bgr.com By: Dan Graziano \| Feb 3rd, 2012 at 01:01PM Apps running on Apple’s iOS devices crash more frequently than Android apps according to a new study preformed by mobile app monitoring company Crittercism. The data, which was collected between December 1st and 15th last year, spans 23 different versions of iOS and 33 different Android versions. The latest version of iOS (5.0.1) leads all others with 28.64% of all crashes, Forbes reports. The OS build is still relatively new, however, so much of the poor performance could be attributed to apps that haven’t yet been properly updated. Even still, there are older version of iOS that have surprisingly high percentages — iOS 4.2.1 was responsible for 12.64% of crashes, iOS 4.3.3 had 10.66% and iOS 4.1 had 8.24%. The chart above, which represents collected from more than 214 million apps between November and December 2011, shows that iOS apps are more likely to crash across all quartiles. A second chart below shows the percentage of app crashes across all OS versions addressed by this study.