It is number of unique devices.  It wouldn't be a count of each connection.
 That would be...  stupid.

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Indicator Veritatis <mej1...@yahoo.com>wrote:

> So then does the dashboard count each MEID/IMEI connecting within the
> given time period only once, regardless of how many times it connects
> and reconnects to the Market? If not, then no, it is not "pretty much
> the exact data they want", because it is skewed by how often devices
> connect and disconnect, or by how many apps they download.
>
> The vague language used on the dashboard, saying evasive-sounding
> things like "relative number of access devices" and "based on the
> number of Android devices that have accessed" do NOT answer this
> question, they leave a LOT of room for doubt.
>
> On Jul 9, 5:48 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Indicator Veritatis <mej1...@yahoo.com
> >wrote:
> >
> > > Why, even the figure Google likes to use, the source for my 45%  using
> > > 1.5 or 1.6, is far from ideal: but it is almost certainly a better
> > > measure of the number of phones out there with given version# than
> > > downloads of even a wildly popular app.
> >
> > The Google numbers are based on the total count of all devices running
> > Market...  which, for people publishing apps to Market, is pretty much
> the
> > exact data they want.
> >
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