>>If you believe those numbers... 2.8 million activations a week * 52 weeks = 145 million a year * 3 years = 435 million activations... enough to give everyone in the US a phone ( man, woman and child), and still have enough left over to give another one to every male. Balderdash.... the numbers just don't hold up..
I take your point, but we're talking world activations. See here
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/48061.php for some interesting visualizations of the accelerating Android trends.
FWIW, the finite market makes it more difficult for WP7 to catch up, since saturated markets won't buy as quickly as developing markets do today.
"... 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
