MacDailyNews Take: All Twitter updates are “terse.”
Electronista reports, “The post came in an apparent attempt to quell suspicions of a slowdown in growth and was a significant jump from earlier figures that put it at 214,000 per day. Its numbers always touch on new devices but also include tablets, e-readers and MP3 players as well as smartphones.”
MacDailyNews Note: For comparison, the most-recent figures we have for Apple came from CEO Steve Jobs who announced back in mid-October that Apple was activating 275,000 iOS devices per day, peaking at 300,000 on some days.
Electronista reports, “About 16,700 per day are the Samsung Galaxy Tab, which reached one million in two months. The slate at the current growth would account for about five percent of Android’s share. Barnes & Noble may also have played a role, since it now ships 18,000 Nook Colors per day and a likely larger number of e-paper Nook readers, all of which use Android.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Everything under the sun that runs Android is counted — e-readers, junky tablets, MP3 players, netbooks — everything (not to mention carriers offering Buy One, Get One Free promos on Android phones). Therefore, that does not allay suspicions of a slowdown in Android’s smartphone growth due to the looming specter of the Verizon iPhone. Neither do the related articles listed below.
Hmmmm
Seemingly large numbers. How long will it last?
Everyone and their grandmother (literally) has an iPhone; I’ve seen like 10-15 Androids total.
300K/ day x $0 per handset= $0 Hmmm… I wonder what they have up their sleeve(s).
Big numbers/how many are actually paid for and not a 2 for 1 deal .it’s easy to get big numbers giving away free stuff.
How about comparing apples to apples?
iOS is OSX remember? So let’s call a spade a spade and count all OSX devices And while were at it, remember that iPhones, iPod touches and Macs are ALL pcs…
Still, big numbers.
I meet people everyday using Android. Most blame AT & T. Next year will be interesting.
I think the numbers are BS… prove it..
And MDN was able to squeeze the ‘Verizon iPhone imminent!’ mantra into another story!
With over a year to go until 2012 (the year when Apple-AT&T 5-year exclusivity expires), we’ll likely see this story mentioned another 300 times…
I’ve seen many more android than iPhones.
But I hang around with a cheap group that perceives anything apple to be overpriced.
Guess I need new friends.
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Lying bitches
And people believe what Gaagle says? Remember, they are a tentacle of NSA / CIA, and they lie, lie, lie.
So this is how many different device companies? After all, Android is a platform, not a phone. Instead we should compare hardware sales per company and by device type (phone, gaming handset, and tablet) if you want a more accurate measure of the real iOS competition, since iOS comes from only one company, with one device (albeit several models) per device type.
So which company selling Android-carrying devices is really in second place for each device class? I don’t know, maybe it is Google, but you’ll find they are far behind Apple in each class.
My family uses T-Mobile because it works for us and ATnT did not. We got our two kids the G2 and they like it. What I like is they each get unlimited data for $30 per month (actually one phone was bought in October and the data rate is $25 per month.) I’m not switching to ATnT so I can pay $100 per month for a single iPhone. Come on Steve, make T-Mobile happen!
And the captain of the Titanic told the crew to go back and check again. This ship can’t sink. Maybe the water you see is just from a plumbing leak.
Oh crew of the Titanic, the Verizon iPhone is coming soon. Very soon!
On a slightly diffent note, my son works in a Cellular phone outlet and they got their first Win 7 phone in yesterday. He said it has a nice layout but there was nothing particularly special about it…and there were no apps.
Going to sell lots I bet.
15 Mio iPhones + 10 iPod touch + 5 Mio iPad = 30 Mio iOS devices / 90 days = 333.000 iOS activations per day
and this without the Verizon iPhone, which will add another 3 Mio iPhones and kill 3 Mio Android sales next quarter.
Well, the argument that iOS is only one maker and Google comes on devices from dozen makers wasn’t necessary when we were looking at the iPod. Ever since the early beginnings (in 2001), iPod quickly attained that 75 – 80% market share and continues to hold that share, despite dozen (or more) other hardware makers making hundreds of different models of MP3 players (including $5 crappy cheap no-name Chinese ones). Apparently, with the iPod, it didn’t matter that Apple was ONE hardware maker, playing against dozen others with hundreds of models.
With Android, there is only ONE reason why Apple is slowly losing its battle: patent infringement. Google’s UI is almost as good as Apple’s because it looks and works almost exactly like Apples, because Google simply copied it as closely as they could. So, unless Apple’s patent infringement litigation bears fruit (strong likelihood, but not a 100% sure thing), Apple will continue to battle Android, and Android may eventually end up getting majority.
The only consolation in that story would be that, even if Android ends up commanding a larger market share, they would always have a smaller app store, because of the platform fragmentation, which will always be an issue. With Gingerbread (and Honeycomb) coming up soon, Android will be spread across 7 different OS versions (you still can’t update 1.5 on most of the phones that came with it, and some phones are still being sold with it). Not to mention the diversity of custom-built, carrier-mandated UI and crapplications, all of which devalue the platform and elevates the iPhone into that coveted position.
All 107 Google TV devices are counted as well. Although I heard 96 of those were returned.
In all those activations, Google makes no money. They give the OS away for free. In theory they make their money via ads on search and maps, but in reality that is only a long term prospect. Right now it’s a desperate push to stay a major player in mobile. So for the moment, user numbers are more important than earnings from Android. It is doubtful their mobile ad revenues are making back what they’ve spent, and are spending, on Android development.
The Android handset makers are also in a desperate and profitless push to stay relevant in mobile. And if the carriers are contributing to the discounts and 2-for-1 promotions, they may be making less than they would like. For them also, survival is uppermost
The only company with abundant profits here is Apple, keeping them in the lead in a vicious musical-chair death match.
I love my iPhone, my Mac and I wish a bright future to iOS and Apple.
But why the hell is everybody here trying to bring down the merits of Android? We all know that there will be more and more devices using it and will surpass iOS by far, so let’s just stop finding stupid arguments to believe the opposite and assume it!
Android will help Google knock out Microsoft and then Googlenthinks it’s ‘smarts’ will enable it to replace Microsoft and prevent the same mistakes Microsoft made that wore it’s welcome with everyone…
BUT, Google ain’t nothing but ‘search’ and all it’s ventures into software for the simple minded dumbed down crowd will also prove how Software engineering and integration is a fine art that takes years to master. Google will NEVER hold a candle to Apple in software engineering, design and interation. Oh yeah, Eric Von Shmidt, lookup: ‘Customer Support’, while you’re counting your unhatched and untried chickens…
Android will have more market share, and iOS will be more polished and intuitive. Apple doesn’t need to be the only game in town. Just the best.
…”But why the hell is everybody here trying to bring down the merits of Android?”
Mostly because Android got to where it is now not based on genuine, original innovation. They got there because they saw what Apple did (a result of many years of research and development) and copied it as closely as they possibly could.
There is a quote somewhere from some interview with Jobs, where he talks about the first time, some five years ago, one of his engineers had showed him inertial scrolling and rubber-band end-of-scroll effect on a touch-screen device. Nobody has ever designed a scrolling interface like that before. Apple has a patent for this behaviour. If you look at Android, practically from the beginning, it has been using the exact same scrolling behaviour (you flick a list up or down, it scrolls, then slows down; when it hits the end, it gently bounces off of it). The UI of iOS is full of such elegant visual details that make it so innovative. And so many of these visual details, fruits of hard labour of Apple’s engineers, found their way into Android.
That is why so many here want to bring down the merits of Android. Because they aren’t Google’s own merits; they are Apple’s.
@MDN, “Everything under the sun that runs Android is counted — e-readers, junky tablets, MP3 players, netbooks — everything (not to mention carriers offering Buy One, Get One Free promos on Android phones).”
But that’s their strategy. They don’t make money on their OS, but they want it to become ubiquitous. Indeed, that may happen, and that hurts Apple. iOS is far superior, but Apple does need to recognize the challenge and market accordingly.