A tweet from Boxee has revealed that there are 200,000 users of its distinctively angular Boxee Boxes, the set-top unit that brings Boxee’s media center interface to your TV. That number gives the Box around 10 percent of the total Boxee install base including users of the now-discontinued desktop client. Since the tweet refers to users, it’s also possible that Boxee has sold more of the devices than this, which are yet to be switched on.
Boxee Box sells 200,000 units, accounting for 10 percent of all users
Boxee has announced that has sold 200,000 units of its Boxee Box streaming set-top box, accounting for around 10 percent of its 2 million users.
Boxee has announced that has sold 200,000 units of its Boxee Box streaming set-top box, accounting for around 10 percent of its 2 million users.
@trace501 We can give you total users: 2 million total users (200k Boxee Box users)
— boxee (@boxee) April 11, 2012
It’s a number that the company is obviously proud of, though it puts it a long way behind the sales of the Apple TV — 1.4 million in the last quarter alone — and Google TV’s roughly one million devices in use. A good part of this will be down to brand recognition for consumers, something that Boxee will have to improve upon if it wishes to be a true contender.
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