Over 700,000 Android devices activated each day (makingmoneywithandroid.com) 3 points by obviator 14y ago ↗ HN
[–] obviator 14y ago ↗ The graph of daily activations is pretty amazing. Based on current growth rates, they should pass 1 million daily activations some time in 2012.
[–] jr62 14y ago ↗ How are they tracking unique activations? IMEI numbers seems the most likely possibility to me, but I wouldn't think Google would keep a list of all the numbers on their servers. [–] obviator 14y ago ↗ IMEI most likely. They can transmit the number as a non-reversible hash (MD5 or similar), that way the number never gets sent or stored as plain text.
[–] obviator 14y ago ↗ IMEI most likely. They can transmit the number as a non-reversible hash (MD5 or similar), that way the number never gets sent or stored as plain text.
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