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.
Predrag – few people these days remember that it was xerox who created the first real GUI. They should have sued ms and appl but didn’t and they are nowhere today as a result. Apple is not the original. Everybody copies everybody
Remember, the Andoid phone makers are a coalition of losers:
http://www.asymco.com/2010/08/17/androids-pursuit-of-the-biggest-losers/
I recently switched from iPhone to HTC EVO. Sooooo happy I did. No dropped calls, Flash support and a much faster user interface. Man do I NOT miss my iPhone.
Rob
I bet you don’t miss your charger, either, because you always have it with you
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Why does the official Google Blog still have this article:
Dec 6
“Introducing Nexus 6 with Gingerbread
“The very first Android phone hit the market in November 2008. Just over two years later, Android’s vision of openness has spurred the development of more than 100 different Android devices. Today, more than 200,000 Android devices are activated daily worldwide.”
Now a few days later andy Rubin tweets”There are over 300,000 Android phones activated each day.”
NOTE: the 200k number was for DEVICES i.e phones, tablets etc. Rubin’s is just for Phones.
(I cut and paste each of the quotes.)
SO..
“either the official google blog is wrong or Andy Rubin.
So who do trust?
Is it a symptom of ‘loose and fast with the numbers?’ Hey what’s a rounding error of 100,000 between friends?
Also at the gingerbread launch Google said that they are selling 1.5m phones a week. that’s how some sources worked that out to be 214k a day.
Steve Jobs sometime ago questioned how Google comes out with their numbers.
@Rob
For anyone who doesn’t mind carrying a phone the size of a brick in their back pocket, I guess it’s an option.
Also flash is unusable on your Evo, but if you’re one of those guys that’s needs all the functions even if the functions don’t actually work in the real world then that’s your prerogative.
P.S I call BS on the EVO interface being quicker than an iphone, I have an iphone 4 which is so snappy, smooth and responsive I can’t imagine how you could make it perceptibly faster.
Finally, the one killer feature that all mobile devices need in order to make them totally practical in the real world is a long battery life; the iphone 4 and the ipad come with this feature as standard
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@jfdl
It always gives me a chuckle when people talk, but don’t have a clue.
Fact:
Apple obtained permission ahead of the Xerox PARC visit. In addition, Apple provided compensation in exchange for the various Xerox PARC ideas such as the GUI.
Jfdi,
Xerox didn’t create the first real GUI, Apple did. Xerox did some ground breaking work but they didn’t patent a damn thing. Besides, Apple paid a lot of money to see what Xerox engineers had worked on.
When it comes to the iPhone innovations that Google has stolen from Apple, well, Apple has patent protection. Google and anyone using Android on their hardware are all in for a world of hurt when it comes to the court cases over patent infringement. The thing is, Google and the hardware guys will be paying more money in compensation for patent infringement fees than they are making selling Android devices.
Xerox invented it but yeah they didn’t patent it. So I guess apple was free to take it. But they did not invent it. I’d say google it but I’m sure that will bring down the rath on me.
“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.”
@Predrag
Nailed it!!!
@ Jfdi,
You are correct that Xerox technically invented the GUI at PARC, but that was just the beginning of the journey. There is a LONG, difficult road between taking a rough concept in a laboratory and developing into a cohesive, usable, productive product. In fact, there is as much real innovation happening in that latter process as in the former.
Saying Apple wasn’t innovative creating their first GUI because Xerox had already created one is akin to saying the Tesla isn’t anything innovative because somebody had already invented an electric car back in the 1880’s.
Just because somebody has already done something doesn’t mean you can’t do it better, faster, and more innovative – and no, you’re not necessarily just “copying”. That’s the problem with Android: It isn’t better, faster, or more innovative compared to iOS – it’s just a crappy copy in many ways, and that’s why people are critical.
Windows Phone 7 is FAR more innovative in design and functionality than Android – which is really saying something.
It doesn’t help when Consumer reports blasts AT & T as being the worst in every category, plus their refusal to recommend the iPhone. You see their list of phones being rated, and only two are iOS. All the others are mostly Android on various carriers.
Hell, if I had the money, even I might consider buying an iPod Touch for iOS and getting a Samsung on Sprint, because I fear AT & T and despise Verizon.
But I also despise Google and Microsoft.
@Jfdi
You still don’t have a clue. Apple didn’t take anything.
“Xerox granted Apple engineers three days of access to the PARC facilities in return for the option to buy 100,000 shares of Apple at the pre-IPO price of $10 a share.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.
Why is everyone so quick to jump down each others throats? First off, it’s just a phone, people. Everyone gets so worked up, but why do you care so much? It’s not like it’s your product that you designed or profit off of! Second, I’ve tried the iPhone 4G and the Droid 2 and I liked both of them. Many phones out there today are amazing, and I don’t see how you can be so hostile to either one, especially if it’s over ideological differences you have. I mean it’s wacky enough that people fight over religious differences, but when people fight over Apple/Microsoft/Google, it’s just flat out rediculous!
Competition spurs growth and development, people steal each others ideas all the time, and insulting people over their personal choices in products makes you look like a tool. Now everyone can stop whining and get on with their lives.
Here is an excerpt from their gingerbread announcement.
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Introducing Nexus S with Gingerbread
12/06/2010 08:02:00 AM
The very first Android phone hit the market in November 2008. Just over two years later, Android’s vision of openness has spurred the development of more than 100 different Android devices. Today, more than 200,000 Android devices are activated daily worldwide. The volume and variety of Android devices continues to surpass our wildest expectations—but we’re not slowing down.
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Over 200k it says. Why the discrepancy with the tweet? Anyone asked google investor relations? I have. No reply.
300,000 per day into 400,000,000 US population over 365 days per year says that in a little over 3.5 years, every man, woman, and child in the US will have activated an Android phone. Uh-huh. I’ve got some prime ocean-front real estate in Colorado I’d like to offer for sale, er, activation…
“300,000 per day into 400,000,000 US population over 365 days per year says that in a little over 3.5 years, every man, woman, and child in the US will have activated an Android phone. Uh-huh. I’ve got some prime ocean-front real estate in Colorado I’d like to offer for sale, er, activation…”
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To bad the earth includes more than the U.S
@David
To you it’s just a phone. To me(and every aapl investor), iOS products are essential. Sixty percent of Apple’s revenue is coming from products that didn’t exist 4 years ago. That’s iOS products.
The only reason there is ANY competition is because Google is copying Apple.
How can Google know about this? Aren’t Gaydriod open and free or is it calling home to mama?