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It’s looks like Android is not about to stop snowballing any time soon with the recent figures, direct from Eric Schmidt, that its daily activation rate has reached an epic 1.3 million a day. Bearing in mind these are unique activations we’re talking about, it’s truly mind blowing. If that wasn’t enough, Android now has an install base of 480 million users. Not too shabby for the little green robot.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the globe, Samsung’s also just popped the champagne with the news of its flagship Galaxy S III hitting a whopping 20 million sales, in just 100 days. That figure puts it at three times the sales rate of the Galaxy S II, which took ten months to hit that same milestone, and more than six times the original Galaxy S, which took a whole 17 months.
If that wasn’t the ice cream on the cake, latest Android platform numbers have just been released on the Android Developers site showing that devices running 4.0 now make up some 22 per cent, but 2.3 Gingerbread still rules the roost with 58 per cent. All this dessert talk is really making me hungry. [AndroidCentral, SlashGear, AndroidDevelopers]
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So. Much. Gingerbread.
For the lazy, that’s 15 per second 24 hours a day.
500 million users coming this month. That’s impressive.
Many of them will be existing users not new ones
That’s the same with any system.
Come on now 500 Million is impressive, and I think Andriod will be the first OS to do it, won’t it?
Delicious, I’d rather have a dessert than a fruit on any given day.
With numbers like this how on earth does iOS account for about 68% of web traffic?
I just don’t understand.
mobile web traffic*
If you can afford an iPhone you can afford a bigger data plan?
Web traffic on Cellular data or Wifi, it account for both.
True. I gotta admit though when I had crappy internet on my phone I used it a LOT less for browsing, even when I sometimes had access to wifi.
I think it could be that alot of Android users are like me and only use WiFi data unless absolutely necessary on cost grounds. I’m only just starting out with Android though so don’t have a lot of mobile apps yet.
One possible explanation. Since basically every site has a iPhone/iPad version but not all of them have ones that work well with Android, this certain Android browsers allow you to spoof the user agent string so the site returns the iPhone formatted page. Of course, the site records that as an iPhone/iPad visit.
There’s just no way a statistically significant number of people are doing that.
When you have nearly half a billion users it doesn’t take that much of a percentage to make a large number of people.
Well I hope Mr Jones is happy at the news!
I’d be happier with a higher 3+ version figure, but yes, the numbers are nice, Of course your own Nexus 7 is included in these numbers too.
And the members of my household, who now have eschewed Apple and Nokia devices in favour of some flavour of Android.
Seems that when you hold something bright and shiny under someone’s nose that does all the things their gadget can do and more and is cheaper than said gadget, they tend to switch pretty quickly.
This figures are highly impressive, just this year we have gone from 0.9m activations, to 1m and now 1.3m. Seems like to Jobs legacy of stopping Android is like King Canute trying to stop the sea.
The irony being that the biggest criticism of Android was fragmentation, being the very reason why they will own a whole smartphone market of 3 billion in less an a few years.
Nokia shares take a tumble after yesterdays joke, Apple got a one-liner coming soon, and Android is tearing it up big style. What fun.
For some reason shares always fall after a big announcement, no idea why but they always do.
I will bet that Apples share price will fall a good few percentage points right after they announce the new iPhone too.
I often wonder if this activation is simply down to logging in on first boot of the phone which many of us do when changing ROMS when rooted.
I wondered that too, I’ve been trying out ROM’s for my G300 and must have activated at least ten times. It says unique, but I wonder what they define that as; Gmail addresses?