Microsoft to Developers: Windows Outsells Android, iOS, OS X Combined

Re:Microsoft to Developers: Windows Outsells Android, iOS, O... by nicholassmith on Monday December 10, 2012 @06:39PM (#4902290)

I have a slight issue with Microsoft saying 'look how many licenses we sold!' As there's no direct way to know if they're talking about licenses in the hands of consumers, or licenses sold by the yard to OEMS currently sat in a box.

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Re:Microsoft to Developers: Windows Outsells Android, iOS, O... by bntly on Monday December 10, 2012 @07:15PM (#4902386)

they always have and always will use that metric - it impresses the users. It probably won't impress developers though.

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Re:Microsoft to Developers: Windows Outsells Android, iOS, O... by nicholassmith on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @04:46AM (#4903820)

Probably not, at least when Apple says "Hey, we sold Xmillion copies of Mountain Lion" you know that they're pretty much talking about how many people have installed it. Same with Android and iOS when they talk about how many activations they've seen, as a developer you instantly get the number of users you're going to potentially have as an audience. Juicing the numbers is not going to woo developers who can see right through it.

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