>>The gist was, if they are selling what they report, then everyone in the US would have and android now, and everyone in the wold in a couple of years...
300K activations per day is a measurable figure that isn't easy to fudge... unlike sales figures to phone carriers that may not say much about actual users. IMHO activations is the better figure. 300K/day can be maintained if people and mobile providers continue their current phone upgrade habits.
One way for MS to catch up would be to merge with Symbian, but the Android flood can erode even that. By way of example, see this:
http://www.techieinsider.com/news/5199 ... at this rate, Samsung all by itself is becoming a competitor to iPhone. So MS needs a real game-changer, fast.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
