December 2011
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Facebook's 300m app users
Sometime in the last couple of days, the monthly active users (MAU) of Facebook’s mobile apps passed 300m.
Quite unsurprisingly, these are dominated by the two platforms that have traction, iOS and Android. As Techcrunch pointed out a few days ago, Android has now passed iOS in DAUs, though Apple has passed the round 100m MAU figure.
Windows Phone remains quite insignificant, though...
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bit.ly/sjUGqZ Just published research on tablet sales for Enders: 40m iPads, 3-4m Androids, 4-500k PlayBooks. Payment in mince pies.
— Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) December9, 2011
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How many Playbooks? 400k sold, 1m+ unsold?
A few datapoints for the over-excited out there:
First, Facebook’s app for the Playbook has 170k monthly active users. So there must be at least that many Playbooks in consumer hands, and more probably something over double that. iPhone, Android and Blackberry handsets all have about 50% penetration, and the Playbook both has a decent browser and is aimed (partly) at corporate users, so...
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Henry Blodget interviews Twitter ‘chief revenue officer’ Adam Bain