Apple leads Android in time spent in apps as both a total, cumulative figure on Flurry's network, and on a per device basis, broken down by various device types.
The company says that it wants to work with others to provide a reliable proxy and replacement for a universal unique device identifier on a per device basis.
I think that the company is profitable on a marginal device basis, but the larger Surface expense set yet outstrips its incomes.
Finally, with IoT devices being in the billions, there's an issue of cost: any secure solution can't be prohibitively expensive to implement on a per device basis or be fragmented across multiple third-party providers.
Microsoft will charge enterprises on a per-user basis (not on a per-device basis) and will be available via its Enterprise Volume Licensing channels starting May 1.
This is still an edge case (as the vast majority of phones aren't stolen), but Apple should come up with a way to remotely disable iMessages on a per-device basis.
The company will be charging business customers on a per-device basis.
If it is paying Sprint on a per-device basis, it won't really matter unless the Kindle takes off in sales.
By contrast, Live Mesh and eventually Azure may well offer console control on a device by device basis.
ComScore's numbers come from a new research division called Device Essentials, which tracks Internet traffic on a device-specific basis.
"These technologies on a device-by-device basis, or even a house-by-house basis, are not a significant additional contribution to overall power consumption," he says.
