“Google VP Andy Rubin in a Twitter update this morning says Android has crossed 500,000 new device activations per day. The milestone comes just a month and a half after the 400,000 mark,” Electronista reports.
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“The combined iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch share reached 200 million devices as of WWDC in early June where Google just crossed the 100 million mark at the Google I/O conference just under a month earlier,” Electronista reports. “The pace is likely to keep Google’s combined platform growing, although not necessarily in the US. Some recent studies have shown Android leveling off in the country either as it reaches saturation or as the Verizon iPhone has been taking away customers that would previously have had no choice but to buy Android.”
Thanks to iPad, “the bias is also heavily in favor of Apple for tablets…”
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