Facebook for Android has close to 1 Million users, does that mean Android has sold 1 Million handsets (It has 300,000 activations everyday).
I think assuming that everyone in this world is on Facebook is a wrong assumption.
But Microsoft made an active decision to integrate WP7 with Facebook. Beyond that their marketing for the phone revolves entirely around social {or more accurately keeping up with your social network without spending your whole life doing so)
Put another way WP7 is to Facebook as Google Services are to Android. There might be a few rare individuals who use Android but don't have a gmail account but those people are by far the exception.
Do the numbers you're quoting include the people using Facebook through that built-in integration (the People hub)? Or do they only count the dedicated Facebook app?
No, the numbers dont mean anything in an absolute sense, but I can see the validity of an apples to apples comparison of the Windows 7 FB numbers to Android FB numbers. Although windows must have a greater % of users using FB
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The number of active Facebook native app users for Windows Phone 7 is probably a pretty reliable metric for active usage.
Windows Phone 7 / 366K
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=7933375107&#...
Blackberry
http://statistics.allfacebook.com/applications/single/facebo...
Facebook for Android has close to 1 Million users, does that mean Android has sold 1 Million handsets (It has 300,000 activations everyday). I think assuming that everyone in this world is on Facebook is a wrong assumption.
But Microsoft made an active decision to integrate WP7 with Facebook. Beyond that their marketing for the phone revolves entirely around social {or more accurately keeping up with your social network without spending your whole life doing so)
CNN even had an article entitled "WP7 is the real Facebook Phone" (http://articles.cnn.com/2010-10-15/tech/windows.phone.facebo...)
Put another way WP7 is to Facebook as Google Services are to Android. There might be a few rare individuals who use Android but don't have a gmail account but those people are by far the exception.
Do the numbers you're quoting include the people using Facebook through that built-in integration (the People hub)? Or do they only count the dedicated Facebook app?
It's more like 25 millions: http://statistics.allfacebook.com/applications/single/facebo...
No, the numbers dont mean anything in an absolute sense, but I can see the validity of an apples to apples comparison of the Windows 7 FB numbers to Android FB numbers. Although windows must have a greater % of users using FB
Are the users just using Facebook through the People hub counted here? I suspect many or most don't bother installing the dedicated app.