{"id":4372,"date":"2011-08-01T08:42:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T07:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=4372"},"modified":"2011-08-01T08:42:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T07:42:01","slug":"windows-mobile-revenue-is-not-doing-better-than-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/windows-mobile-revenue-is-not-doing-better-than-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Mobile revenue is not doing better than Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some detective work from Seattle PI (reported on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpcentral.com\/windows-phone-revenue-abysmal-still-better-android\">WP Central<\/a>) has WindowsPhone earning under $600 million for Microsoft: &#8220;Abysmal?&#8230; Compared to Android? Not so much. After all, Google makes $0 from Android sales, though they do take in some money through the limited advertising on the phone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Except that limited amount of advertising is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/06\/16\/how-much-does-google-earn-from-your-smartphone\/\">$3.35 per user per year<\/a>, Google are activating over half a million Android devices a day. Add in a bit of windage and you get revenues <em>increasing<\/em> by $1,675,000 a day, or $611 million a year. I&#8217;d like a limited problem like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some detective work from Seattle PI (reported on WP Central) has WindowsPhone earning under $600 million for Microsoft: &#8220;Abysmal?&#8230; Compared to Android? Not so much. After all, Google makes $0 from Android sales, though they do take in some money through the limited advertising on the phone.&#8221; Except that limited amount of advertising is $3.35 per user per year, Google are activating over half a million Android devices a day. Add in a bit of windage and you get revenues increasing by $1,675,000 a day, or $611 million a year. I&#8217;d like a limited problem like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2235,25,2245],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-link-log","category-windows-phone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-18w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}