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Big round numbers always make for a handy talking point, and so it is with 1 billion.
For several years, Asymco analyst Horace Dediu has been looking at what he calls the "race to a billion" -- as in, 1 billion users -- by a variety of tech products and services, from the PC to the Wii and the iPod, from AOL to Facebook, from BlackBerry to iOS to Android, and so on. And right, it's not always an apples to apples to apples comparison.
In his latest musings on the matter, looking back at a mass of statistics for 2012, Dediu has refined the label to "the race to one billion users in less than a decade." So far, only Facebook has hit that mark, having declared its billion-user status last October, a bit less than nine years after its launch. (Sorry, Microsoft: "Although Windows reached one billion first," Dediu writes, "it did so slowly enough to be off the scale" of the analyst's crowded, cramped-for-space chart.)
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by Jonathan Skillings via CNET
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