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Re:The Deal That Makes No Sense by rmk2 on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @07:21AM (#6320251)
Growing without market-share tells us comparatively little.

And to be the person for once that posts the obligatory xkcd comic: http://xkcd.com/1102/

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Re:The Deal That Makes No Sense by jeswin on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @07:30AM (#6320283)
On HN, you could give people the benefit of doubt and assume that market-share growth wouldn't be brought up unless the numbers were large enough. I would refrain from quoting that figure if it went from say 10,000 units to 20,000.

Last quarter, iPhone sales were 31 million devices and WP8 sales were 7.4 million devices. If WP8 is selling one device for every 4 iPhones, that is indeed a decent result relative to where they started off from.

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