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Andy Rubin, Android's co-founder and now vice president of engineering at Google, has revealed a new milestone for the mobile operating system: half a million devices activated daily. "There are now over 500,000 Android devices activated every day, and it's growing at 4.4% w/w," Rubin wrote in a message on his Twitter account.
That's over 3.5 million devices every week and over 105 million devices every month. Last month, the daily number was 400,000. In December 2010, it was 300,000. In August 2010, activations passed the 200,000 per day mark. As you can see, the milestone updates are coming in more frequently.
It's thus worth looking at Rubin's second statistic. A growth of 4.4 percent week over week means we'll see 600,000 daily Android activations by next month. At this rate, it also means we'll see 1 million Android activations daily Android activations before the end of the year (if the growth does not change, which of course it will, the milestone will occur in October 2011).
The devil is in the details though: previously Google was saying the number was phones activated each day, while now it is saying Android devices. This means tablets and other hardware running Android is being counted now. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's an important thing to remember.
In October 2010, Apple CEO Steve Jobs talked about Android and iOS activations during his company's quarterly earnings conference call. At the time, Google had said it was activating 200,000 Android devices per day, while Jobs revealed that Apple was activating 275,000 iOS devices each day.
In sheer activation numbers, Google is now very likely beating Apple and its iOS platform, which includes iPads, iPhones, and iPod touches. We're curious if Apple will bother share its latest activation statistic at its next event.
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I won't respond to personal comments since It is very childish to play that game.
As I said I don't like seeing fanboyish comments on a news story, If people consider my comments as fanboyish it's ok I'm not part of the editorial part of the site I'm mainly involved in the technological part of it. And because I work here I care enough to comment as a regular user and to express my mind in a respectful way.
So yeah I know most people here are in favor Android/MS that's why I try to keep things balanced and offer my comments as a counterpart.
Staying on topic, regretfully the data we are all fighting about is not concrete and because of our different opinions we are both gonna interpret it in a different way. When we do have the actual data we can say who's the winner and make the proper celebrations
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Don't worry mario, in few months Android will have one less user, however, iphone 4 was returned after 1 week +/- usage by two of my colleagues so ...... I think liking a product can be reasonably subjective regardless of what sort of technological advantage it may or may not have.
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As I said I don't like seeing fanboyish comments on a news story, If people consider my comments as fanboyish it's ok I'm not part of the editorial part of the site I'm mainly involved in the technological part of it. And because I work here I care enough to comment as a regular user and to express my mind in a respectful way.
That's fine, we'll treat you like everyone else and judge your posts on the merits of the content. But since you want to be treated like everyone else, then its unnecessary to mention that you work here at the end of your argument.
Because there are some forums out there where disagreeing with a staff member can often get you banned, regardless of the merit of the argument. So some people may be afraid to express their true opinion to someone who feels it necessary to advertise their position, due to fear of repercussions. You may not realize that, as that certainly is not the policy on TS, but its something that exists, and I've seen it happen several times on other boards.
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marioestrada said:
Staying on topic, regretfully the data we are all fighting about is not concrete and because of our different opinions we are both gonna interpret it in a different way. When we do have the actual data we can say who's the winner and make the proper celebrations
. Why do you keep saying there is no data, if I already showed you two sources with both Verizon's and AT&T's quarterly iPhone activations. Links are HERE and HERE. Combined, both carriers activated about 47,000 iPhones a day. Google reportedly activates 500,000 devices a day. Even if, say, 400,000 of those devices were tablets, it would still activate more Android phones than Apple.
There is nothing to "interpret", that's what you keep telling yourself to not face the truth; if you know basic arithmetic, you can clearly tell who is winning and who is losing. This is my last attempt at getting some sense into you... now, if you excuse me, I got a party to attend to.
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