By: Aseem Gaurav on June 28, 2011
Google Android chief Andy Rubin has said that Google is activating half a million Android devices a day.
He made the announcement in a message on his Twitter feed, @Arubin. "Over 500,000 Android devices are now activated each day around the world. Moreover, that’s growing at a rate of 4.4 percent week-over-week.”
In simpler terms, it means that 347 Android devices are activated every minute and 5 are activated per second!
His revelation comes just after Google's I/O Conference, where the company said that 400,000 Android devices were being activated each day, up from 300,000 in December.
Analysts predict that with this continued growth, soon a period will come where we can see a million Android devices being activated per day.
A remarkable feat indeed given that the market is facing stiff competition from a variety of operating systems in the market. A large part of it is due to its availability on a wide variety of devices, including both smartphones and tablets. Further, the open nature of the operating system along with an impressive suite of applications and features makes it special in comparison of the growth others are registering.
Earlier this month, a report by ComScore esaid Android had 36.4 per cent of the U.S. smartphone market share during the first quarter of 2011, which is better than Apple's iOS platform, which controlled 26 percent of the market. Research In Motion and Microsoft controls 25.7 percent and 6.7 percent of the market, respectively.
