Google activates 500,000 Android devices daily

By George Wong on 06/28/2011 07:32 PDT

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Google has just reached a new milestone with its Android operating system. According to a tweet from Android chief Andy Rubin, the company is now activating 500,000 devices daily! That’s 100,000 more than the 400,000 announced a month ago at the Google I/O conference. Here’s what his latest Tweet said:

There are now over 500,000 Android devices activated every day, and it’s growing at 4.4% w/w

It looks like the massive push of Honeycomb tablets this year is helping the Android cause grow as well, though it wasn’t mentioned how many percent of the 500,000 devices activated were tablets. At this rate that Android is growing, there’s no doubt it’s going to be the number one operating system for smartphones and tablets worldwide, and it probably won’t take too long to happen either. How many of you have contributed to this statistic or will be contributing to it this year?

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Android Android is mobile operating system from Google. The software was originally built by a company called Android Inc, that was purchased by Google in 2005. From its modest debuts, Android has become a powerhouse that powers not only smartphones and tablet, but a host of other less high-profile devices and gadgets. Although Android is not a community-driven project, Google does release the source code as open-source under the Apache license.

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