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Re:Android Will Become The Most Popular App Platform within ... by trotsky on Monday June 03, 2013 @01:12PM (#5814439)
How could the installed base for ios be 83 apps per device? Out of 8 or 10 mobile devices I doubt I've ever installed that many apps on any one of them. Would that be doing something like counting the same app multiple times if you wipe and reinstall? Seems like a hard metric to believe otherwise, that's what, ~165 apps per device for each one acting as an offset for the devices that don't get any 3rd party apps installed on them?
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Re:Android Will Become The Most Popular App Platform within ... by awj on Monday June 03, 2013 @01:28PM (#5814542)
Simple: people that aren't you install a lot of apps. I have about fifty after some heavy duty pruning, and I'm a lot less likely to just go buy apps than many of my friends.
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Re:Android Will Become The Most Popular App Platform within ... by trotsky on Monday June 03, 2013 @01:52PM (#5814679)
It wasn't very long ago at all that there was an upper bound of (16x5) = 90 - ~10 pre installed = maximum upper bound of 80 or so apps on ios? And yet now the average number of installed apps for ios's lifetime is higher than that?

Or maybe it's because it's asymco's numbers.

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