Fair warning to those waiting on the update, I don't think anyone has mentioned this yet, but based on the schedule shown at Engadget this update could take days and days to reach everyone. Per the schedule:
o At noon on 03/30, 1,000 users will receive notification of
the update.
o At 11:59 PM on 03/30, 9,000 more users will receive the
update notification.
o After the first 10,000 users receive the update on 03/30,
there will be a 24-hour period when no additional upgrades
will be delivered.
o On Day 3 (04/01), 200,000 users will receive the update
notification at 11:59 PM. This schedule will continue each
day thereafter until the update has been delivered to all users.
By my reading, that's 10,000 by April 1st and only 200,000 that day and each day thereafter. A million Droids will take 5 days to roll out (1 million divided by 200,000/day), 2 million 10 days, 4 million 20 days. At the end of the 2009 quarter, Motorola announced they had shipped 2 million Android phones (Droid/Milestone & Cliq). Assuming at least 1.5 million were Droids based on the reported estimate that Verizon sold 1.3 million in the first 70 days., there has to have been at least another 1.3 million sold in the first three months of 2010 or last 90 days.
Does this make sense to anyone else? Also, those figures have to be close for the Droid to have become the 2nd most popular smartphone in the U.S. after the iPhone (per AdMob's report yesterday).
This big number could also explain why that third party (the one owned by HP...Bitrate or something) couldn't handle the volume which caused the last delay.
