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This is a great milestone regardless, I'm just trying to put it into perspective. This website has a graph of total smartphone users, putting that number at 2.08 billion forecast for 2016: http://www.statista.com/statistics/330695/number-of-smartpho... although that doesn't necessarily mean how many devices are out there. Many people have multiple devices. Does anyone have a better resource to answer the question of how many devices there are being used in total?
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 23.0 ms ] threadIf you're worried that your account has been penalized, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com to find out.
This is a great milestone regardless, I'm just trying to put it into perspective. This website has a graph of total smartphone users, putting that number at 2.08 billion forecast for 2016: http://www.statista.com/statistics/330695/number-of-smartpho... although that doesn't necessarily mean how many devices are out there. Many people have multiple devices. Does anyone have a better resource to answer the question of how many devices there are being used in total?