{"id":1904,"date":"2013-01-08T05:29:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T05:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/?p=395"},"modified":"2013-01-08T05:29:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T05:29:34","slug":"im-dreaming-of-a-digital-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/im-dreaming-of-a-digital-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m Dreaming of a Digital Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Christmas, more smartphones and tablets were wrapped up and gifted to individuals than any year prior.\u00a0 There were 17.5 million activations of both Apple and Android devices on Christmas Day alone, over double last year\u2019s 6.8 million.\u00a0 Every day in December showed high activations, with an average of 4 million each day.\u00a0 This increase also extended to applications, with more than 328 million apps downloaded on Christmas Day, compared to the average December daily of 155 million.<\/p>\n

In 2011, there were 491.4 million smartphones sold worldwide.\u00a0 2012 is supposed to improve on these numbers as mobile continues to grow even over PC sales.\u00a0 In fact, Mobile devices will outsell PC\u2019s 2:1 in 2012, and there are over 1 billion of them in use, catching up quickly to the 1.5 billion PC\u2019s out there.<\/p>\n

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Apple and Google make up the majority of device sales (no big surprise there).\u00a0 The danger for Apple lies in Android\u2019s cheap price points.\u00a0 With some Android smart phones dropping as low as $45 at wholesale, a lot of people are getting phone that couldn\u2019t afford them prior.\u00a0 With Apples high cost\/ high quality marketing technique, they may lose out on some of the market if they don\u2019t release a product that caters to the crowds that can\u2019t afford a 200-600 dollar smartphone.\u00a0 It is likely that Android sales could reach as high as 1 billion a year if Apple doesn\u2019t step in.<\/p>\n

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Some make the argument that although Android is no doubt growing, its device type\/setup is spread too thin for its own good.\u00a0 Having an open platform is great in the sense that it allows for many developers and manufactures to make a phone using your OS, but having so many versions under so many companies makes cross compatibility a difficult task.\u00a0 With Apple, you know you will get all the updates, and the apps will all work.\u00a0 Android doesn\u2019t have this luxury.\u00a0 Although Google will release updates to their OS, a lot of times the phone manufacturer or sometimes even the phone carrier will hold the update hostage until they add their own code, or at times never even release the updates.\u00a0 On my Verizon family plan, we have 4 Android phones, from 3 different manufacturers (Motorola, HTC, and Sony), with 3 different versions of the Android OS.\u00a0 This makes some apps incompatible between them, and some features available on some but not the others.<\/p>\n

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There is no doubt a \u201cmobile revolution\u201d coming, and it has started far before this Christmas.\u00a0 Being mobile is cheaper and easier than ever before.\u00a0 How long till they outshine PC\u2019s and all you need is a tablet or phone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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