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Re:Microsoft Shipped 2 Million Units of Windows Phone 7 Soft... by wallflower on Thursday January 27, 2011 @10:45AM (#2148199)
The number of active Facebook native app users for Windows Phone 7 is probably a pretty reliable metric for active usage.

Windows Phone 7 / 366K

http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=7933375107&#...

Blackberry

http://statistics.allfacebook.com/applications/single/facebo...

Re:Microsoft Shipped 2 Million Units of Windows Phone 7 Soft... by azharcs on Thursday January 27, 2011 @10:55AM (#2148251)
Facebook for Android has close to 1 Million users, does that mean Android has sold 1 Million handsets (It has 300,000 activations everyday). I think assuming that everyone in this world is on Facebook is a wrong assumption.
Re:Microsoft Shipped 2 Million Units of Windows Phone 7 Soft... by TomOfTTB on Thursday January 27, 2011 @12:19PM (#2148611)
But Microsoft made an active decision to integrate WP7 with Facebook. Beyond that their marketing for the phone revolves entirely around social {or more accurately keeping up with your social network without spending your whole life doing so)

CNN even had an article entitled "WP7 is the real Facebook Phone" (http://articles.cnn.com/2010-10-15/tech/windows.phone.facebo...)

Put another way WP7 is to Facebook as Google Services are to Android. There might be a few rare individuals who use Android but don't have a gmail account but those people are by far the exception.

Re:Microsoft Shipped 2 Million Units of Windows Phone 7 Soft... by contextfree on Thursday January 27, 2011 @01:06PM (#2148785)
Do the numbers you're quoting include the people using Facebook through that built-in integration (the People hub)? Or do they only count the dedicated Facebook app?
Re:Microsoft Shipped 2 Million Units of Windows Phone 7 Soft... by shagrath on Thursday January 27, 2011 @11:56AM (#2148508)
Re:Microsoft Shipped 2 Million Units of Windows Phone 7 Soft... by namityadav on Thursday January 27, 2011 @11:43AM (#2148463)
No, the numbers dont mean anything in an absolute sense, but I can see the validity of an apples to apples comparison of the Windows 7 FB numbers to Android FB numbers. Although windows must have a greater % of users using FB
Re:Microsoft Shipped 2 Million Units of Windows Phone 7 Soft... by contextfree on Thursday January 27, 2011 @11:41AM (#2148462)
Are the users just using Facebook through the People hub counted here? I suspect many or most don't bother installing the dedicated app.