Leveraging a large install base is going to be one of the requirements for intelligence tools.
They now have an install base of 4.5 million in the U.S., a sizable lead in the next-gen race.
To get a return on that investment you need a large install base.
One US research company (Alpha Wise) found that the tablet install base reduced PC usage by 37 percent in 2011.
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The Call of Duty series is popular with both casual and core gamers, fostered by a sizeable install base with current-gen consoles.
Entertainment partnerships, subscriptions and licensing can make up the gap, but not if the next Xbox is too expensive to establish a functional install base.
Their new efforts, the Vita and 3DS respectively, now face a huge and quickly expanding install base for smartphones and tablets with Apple leading the pack.
In all, it's surprising, albeit welcome news given the massive install base of Netflix-capable competitors like the Wii and Xbox 360, not to mention a host of other connected devices.
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To get a feeling for the Windows install base Chitika estimates that Windows 7 is almost 60%, XP is almost 26%, Vista is about 11%, and Windows 8 is 3%.
Certainly something can be said for being the first and for having such a large install base, but any device that is that loud can't be that enjoyable to watch movies on.
With 76 million units sold so far, the Wii has a massive install base, but one that might actually be too unwieldy, as it now might be running out of new customers to unearth.
The interesting analytical problem is that these figures are very different from those from surveys of the install base (by Comscore and others), which suggest that iPhone share is more like a third of US smartphones.
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With so many preorders, the game could find itself a nice little install base, and it could be a bit of a breather from Black Ops players looking for something similar, but new at the same time.
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Since the install base of ereaders is projected to increase by about 5 million in 2013 and smaller numbers in subsequent years I believe this is another confirmation that ereaders will not have a major impact on iPad or Android tablet sales.
Most reputation services for identifying malicious sites relies on a large install base of deployed appliances that report new URLs and their associated behavior back to a central database for automated inspection backed up by teams of researchers for those sites that defy automated analysis.
Netscape looks to enhance multimedia capabilities in this release by bundling several multimedia tools in the base install.
One drawback: Geothermal systems, on an Army base or at a home, cost some 25% more to install than traditional HVAC equipment.
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