“Steve Jobs started off the [Apple special event] presentation [yesterday] saying that Apple was activating 230,000 devices a day,” Seth Weintraub reports for Fortune. “Google’s Eric Schmidt last month said that Google was activating over 200,000 devices a day and growing. But Steve Jobs can’t believe those numbers are legit.”
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Weintraub reports, “He told the event audience that: ‘We think some of our friends are counting upgrades in their numbers.’ That’s obviously a direct accusation aimed at Google. He added, ‘we think we are ahead of everyone.'”
Weintraub reports, “A Google Spokesperson told me: ‘The Android activation numbers do not include upgrades and are, in fact, only a portion of the Android devices in the market since we only include devices that have Google services.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: It’s highly likely that Steve Jobs can recognize numbers that do not add up. The find out whether Google’s numbers are sound, simply do the math.
Keep in mind that it only takes one or two shitty Chinese knock-off experts to dramatically skew those Android numbers…Imagine the “stats” when the whole continent starts pushing out plastic craproid devices…
who cares what Google says about their droids…
Once the iPhone gets to other carriers… it won’t really matter.
@Macinfo
How does that make any sense at all? If an influential person started spreading lies about you, you wouldn’t want to defend yourself or clear up the rumor? And if you do, it’s an implication of guilt?
Fool.
Steve516’s explanation might be the answer. Or some such.
Certainly for Google phones/devices to actually achieve the numbers they claim there would be long, snaking lines at the phone stores and sold out inventories. We’ve seen none of that.
A googol (not google) is a large number.
Apple should not play the “numbers” game. Just create amazing products with great services at fair prices, and customers will line up to buy them.
Android is not a phone, it’s an OS!
Android is a virus, and will spread as fast as manufacturers can build their devices. Android has the potential to explode in the market, eclipsing the competition.
Apple and its faithful are witnessing history repeating once again.
Just as Microsoft and Compaq delivered the world’s first IBM-compatible computer, Google and all of the “iPhone killers” with their “open architecture” will soon flood the world with cheap iPhone knock-offs powered by a Windows-like operating system that plays host to a plethora of viruses.
Apple’s only hope, once again, will be to maintain their closed-system, keep the faithful happy, and continue to push the envelope.
Android will spread like a daemon providing a conduit for a cadre of viruses and destroy markets and vendors alike.
It’s always the same; greedy merchants unwittingly opening the door to their own death and destruction. When will they ever learn?
“Android is a virus”, G4Dualie? You mean like HIV?
“When will they every learn”? Your silly little rant might make sense if it contained any facts, instead of fandroid spin repackaged as fact. Google open? What planet do you live on? These thieves and liars left that all behind years ago, or hadn’t you noticed?
“Android is a virus”, G4Dualie? You mean like HIV?
No. More like a plague. Like Black Death.
Foris you are obviously too young to have much perspective. Don’t tell me, you were born about the time Photoshop made its debut, right?
Android will prove to be good enough to pass as a decent OS, thanks to Google, who could no longer wait for the handset makers to deliver an iPhone killer. So they brought out Nexus and a funny thing happened on the way to market, Android proved the bigger success.
Because Google was willing to share the OS, it practically brought Motorola back from the dead. It restored Samsung’s faith in US markets, and saved HTC from an arranged marriage to Microsoft.
The only big player missing in action is HP. That could be because they’re trying to develop WebOS.
Soon the market will be flooded with every tablet imaginable, all running some flavor of Android. They’ll come packaged with attractive services and software with every feature you can think of, i.e., HDMI, HD cameras, USB 3.0, real keyboards, SD cards, wi-fi, bluetooth, Netflix, Boxee, and maybe even a parallel port!
It’s inevitable, Android will dominate marketshare but in their attempt to push the envelope, the carriers and handset makers will sell their souls to advance their agenda. They’ll be making deals all around, in order to maximize short term profits, caring little for a homogeneous platform or a consistent user experience.
The very properties that make Android attractive today, will be its undoing. There is no long term profits, because there are too many players and zero leadership, leaving the platform at the mercy of pirates who will undermine any attempts to establish conformity, or a sustainable revenue stream.
I predict, in the long term, Android will an absolute mess, unless there is a concerted effort to standardize the platform. In other words, Android will suffer a similar fate as Windows.