Android activations now over 900,000 per day, Rubin confirms

[mercurial]

An interesting rumor was doing the rounds on the web yesterday, saying that Andy Rubin might be leaving Google and focusing on a startup company. The man himself quickly stepped up to refute it, bringing an update on the Android daily activations count in the process.

According to Rubin, he is only providing free office space to the mentioned startup and has no plans to join it now or at any point in the future. As for the more interesting bit - Rubin bragged that Android is now getting over 900,000 daily activations, which represents an increase of more than 50,000 compared to the 850,000 number quoted at the last Mobile World Congress back in February.

The number has undoubtedly been boosted by the recent launch of the Samsung Galaxy S III, which has become a huge success in Europe and they get another bump, when the new Samsung flagship lands in the US later this month. The HTC One lineup has also helped the growth, even if it failed to meet its ambitious targets.

The 900,000 activations per day add up to nearly 28 million droids sold every month or just over 10 every second. And as we know, each phone is only counted once, so in the time it took you to read this article about 250 people purchased a shiny new Android smartphone.

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[Elimentals]

Holy <swearword>!!!

 

[DominionZA]

Holy <swearword>!!!

+1 No slowing down...

 

[adsl2]

That is a lot of devices!

 

[Syphonx]

Very close to the 1 million mark

 

[Vulk]

Am I the only one who read this thread title in the voice of Vegeta from Dragonball Z?

 

[SUPERMAN89]

and this is how the Matrix begins...

 

[Mouse]

Am I the only one who read this thread title in the voice of Vegeta from Dragonball Z?

No even Andy Rubin tweeted that "its over 900000"

 

[mercurial]

Android naysayers can say what they like. The truth hurts

 

[reactor_sa]

Been getting my share of android for almost a year now. Never had a better phone experience.

 

[Ockie]

If the order volumes I am getting from my store for the S3 is anything to go by...this number will go even higher.

 

[mercurial]

Android device activations reach 400 million in total, 1 million per day

 

[DominionZA]

DAMN!

 

[azbob]

Just like Ballz radio listenership stats

 

[Syphonx]

Just like Ballz radio listenership stats

, luckily NetDynamix doesn't do the counting

 

[mercurial]

Android activations reach 1.3 million per day, total droid count now 480 million

 

[DominionZA]

Android activations reach 1.3 million per day, total droid count now 480 million

Lots of tech types and geeks out there if you consider those that say these are the only types that go for Android

 

[mercurial]

Lots of tech types and geeks out there if you consider those that say these are the only types that go for Android

Indeed.

 

[BeVonk!]

But I got a link yesterday from an iFan written by two "tech journo's" claiming Android's days are over and will die ... apparently because Windows 8 and iOS will kill it ...

Didn't the 1,3 million people that activated Android devices in the last 24 hours get that link to prevent them from going for the wrong OS?!

 

[grok]

No wonder Apple shat their pants and called in the lawyers to come clean up the mess..