Over 700,000 Android devices activated each day

Posted by obviator on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @11:38PM
from the makingmoneywithandroid.com dept.

http://makingmoneywithandroid.com/2011/12/over-700000-android-devices-activated-per-day/

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Re:Over 700,000 Android devices activated each day by jr62 on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @12:04AM (#3376427)

How are they tracking unique activations? IMEI numbers seems the most likely possibility to me, but I wouldn't think Google would keep a list of all the numbers on their servers.

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Re:Over 700,000 Android devices activated each day by obviator on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @12:12AM (#3376446)

IMEI most likely. They can transmit the number as a non-reversible hash (MD5 or similar), that way the number never gets sent or stored as plain text.

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Re:Over 700,000 Android devices activated each day by obviator on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @11:41PM (#3376383)

The graph of daily activations is pretty amazing. Based on current growth rates, they should pass 1 million daily activations some time in 2012.

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