Apple Music Surpasses 40 Million Installs on Android Devices

[Focusx0131]

Stop publishing headlines that describe rumors and unsubstantiated claims as facts, you are foolishly damaging your reputation. And as far as this story goes, if 40 million Android users were using Apple Music you would have heard about this from Apple.

Yeah! This is MacRUMORS not...oh wait....

 

[NMBob]

Stop publishing headlines that describe rumors and unsubstantiated claims as facts, you are foolishly damaging your reputation. And as far as this story goes, if 40 million Android users were using Apple Music you would have heard about this from Apple.

Hmmm...Apple DOES keep saying The Service (since that is what they are into now I guess it should be capitalized) is growing, but they don't really say how many are Apple and how many are Android peeps. Interesting.

 

[cfurlin]

Pretty sure you just made that up... more switch to iOS than from it, which is good news for Apple.

Of course he made it up.

A lot: The most popular “number” in the world of data in 2019.

 

[John05.636]

Yeah! This is MacRUMORS not...oh wait....

I was thinking the same thing too. They probably complain about the accuracy of The Onion too.

 

[PickUrPoison]

I was thinking the same thing too. They probably complain about the accuracy of The Onion too.

It’s worse than that, really. OP is complaining the headline is inaccurate stating “40 million users” when the headline clearly says 40 million installs.

 

[garoto]

It’s amazing what people “just know” without having any basis in fact.

Math (statistics) will tell you that a random sample size of less than 2,000 is necessary to be 99% sure that your data is within +/- 3 percentage points of accurately describing the entire population—whether that population is a million or a billion.

Of course, the study may not have been designed properly, you’d have to examine their methodology. And even if the design is sound, it may not have been executed correctly.

But Google didn’t take issue with the study, so they apparently didn’t have a problem with the results, even if you do.

200 not 2000

 

[PickUrPoison]

200 not 2000

Not for a 99% confidence level at a margin of error of 3 percentage points, unless the population were very small.

A sample of 200 at 99% confidence would give you about +/- 9 percentage points. (In order to be 99% confident and accurate to +/- 3 with a sample size of only 200, surprisingly—at least to me—your total population could be no more than 224, meaning you’d have to sample almost 90% of the entire population!)

 

[bingeciren]

Most people in this thread had the right idea.

In our case for instance, my wife, in addition to her iPhone, has a Samsung S10+ and she is using Apple Music on it as a family member.

 

[MacsRgr8]

Do these people also have Spotify installed?