Google says 12 Android devices activated every second, 400M to date
Google announced during its I/O conference on Wednesday that activations of Android-powered devices had hit the 400 million unit mark as the company sees an average activation rate of 12 smartphones or tablets per second amounting to some 1 million each day.
The staggering numbers were revealed as part of a blog post from Google Senior Vice President of Mobile and Digital Content Andy Rubin who was commenting on the plethora of announcements made during company's I/O conference keynote.
From the post:
Google's Director of Product Management Hugo Barra reveals Android
activation rate at I/O 2012. | Source: Google
Rubin's statistics are of note given that a recent study from comScore showed Android smartphone share dipping during the month of April. The report Google's share of the market slip from 51 percent at the beginning of April to 50.8 percent by the end of the month while iOS gained ground over the same period.
The staggering numbers were revealed as part of a blog post from Google Senior Vice President of Mobile and Digital Content Andy Rubin who was commenting on the plethora of announcements made during company's I/O conference keynote.
From the post:
In a rare tweet from the SVP noted by Business Insider two weeks ago and primarily meant to quash rumors of his departure from Google, Rubin let slip that over 900,000 Android devices were being activated daily. That number is up from December 2011 estimates that pegged the rate at 700,000 per day.More than 400 million Android devices have now been activated—up from 100 million last June. And twelve new Android devices are activated every every second—that?s more than 1 million a day.
Google's Director of Product Management Hugo Barra reveals Android
activation rate at I/O 2012. | Source: Google
Rubin's statistics are of note given that a recent study from comScore showed Android smartphone share dipping during the month of April. The report Google's share of the market slip from 51 percent at the beginning of April to 50.8 percent by the end of the month while iOS gained ground over the same period.
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Originally Posted by AppleInsider
... Rubin's statistics are of note given that a recent study from comScore showed Android smartphone share dipping during the month of April. ...
This isn't remarkable at all given that the ComScore report is US only and Google's own "heat map" at this very event indicates that all their growth is in the middle east and the third world.
How many iPhones to date?
And how many Android devices are returned, broken, thrown out window, etc...
Is this GoogleInsider? I'm confused.
How many are "free" and how many are chinese knockoffs?
"12 smartphones or tablets"
Ummm... it's probably 11.99999999999 smartphones and .000000000001 tablets every second.
That said, if you add up sales for the top Android devices (Galaxy phones, HTC One, DROID and so on) and you come up with a fraction of that 1 million figure. Which begs the question: which devices make up the rest?
I'd love to see the breakout of that number by manufacturer and model ...
Petty comment; same argument could be made for any device, bag of chips or soda bottle.
Samsung, HTC, ect all have mutually exclusive balance sheets. LOL!
Apple makes the hardware and the software. Apple pays their own advertising etc so please spare me.
If google wants to impress me they should sell their Android on their hardware with no OEMs in the mix. So until they grow some REAL BALLS Google can go straight to hell.
Efff wackdroid!
Google says 12 Android devices activated every second, 400M to date
Which includes the good, the bad, and the downright ugly.
Great statistic, Google. YOU CAN KEEP IT.
Who cares?
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Originally Posted by bighype
Is this GoogleInsider? I'm confused.
It's perfectly reasonable to post stories about direct competitors.
Clearly, they're including every POS phone that uses Android. And since Android is free, it is often used on POS phones.
Frankly, I couldn't care less if they had a billion phones. I've never seen one that I wanted to own.
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Originally Posted by SpamSandwich
It's perfectly reasonable to post stories about direct competitors.
Waiting for the D-Link, Belkin, and Cisco news for competing routers of the Airport.
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Originally Posted by jwdav
I'd love to see the breakout of that number by manufacturer and model ...
and Android Version...
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Originally Posted by MaroonMushroom
Waiting for the D-Link, Belkin, and Cisco news for competing routers of the Airport.
To be fair, routers aren't as nearly as interesting and influential on tech lifestyle as mobile devices.
And all 400 million of them are running a different version of Android!! Zing!!!
And each activation is worth $.10 to Google over the lifetime of that phone
Google makes essentially $0 from Android. And their overall mobile revenue is about to decrease substantially as Apple keeps reducing the number of Google powered iOS services on iOS. And, as it continues to move the user experience to apps which do not use/rely on Google Web search. That is reality
Also, question - do these activation numbers include Amazon Fire?