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Smartphone install bases

Related to my last post, a post from Benedict Evans on (global) smartphone install bases; its easy to forget that when the average phone lasts 24 months, the current pace of smartphone growth is really pretty fast. Based on some fairly simple arithmetic;

… about 90% of current Android users are on their first Android, as are 70% of iPhone users. It'll be interesting to see what their second purchase is.