“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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I’ve activated each of my iPhones about a dozen times. Every time I install a new iOS build, they ping an Apple server for authorization.
-jcr
That’s exactly what I was thinking.
Or to get even sillier, how about 500,000 devices per day “activating” after a reboot? Not that impressive, Mr. Rubin. 😉
ah, I think Larry Ellison just perked up: the oracle lawsuit is going to get BIGGER…
(don’t know much about lawsuits but it seems Larry O is suing them for billions which is a lot more than what Google is making off android, probably estimating NUMBERS of android phones sold rather than Google’s profit.. more they sell, the more they hurt?
apparently in May Larry sued his neighbor because the neighbors trees blocked his view…. go ahead tell Larry how many hundreds of thousands you are activating a day.. )
Exactly.
Come the day oracle collects, google will disown these tweets.
500k a day is $30 million a day for oracle. Sweet. Plus $2.5 million for microsoft.
Never thought of that lol.
I bet the Google lawyers just had a massive heart attack when they saw him tweet that.