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Google Android Activations reach over 900,000 a day

by Alistair Lowe on 11 June 2012, 10:06

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To be extinguished as fast as it had spread, Google SVP and Android project manager, Andy Rubin, has made a rare twit to deny rumours that he would be leaving Google to head up new firm, CloudCar and, as always, Andy took the time to let us know the latest Android Activation figures, citing the impressive numbers as his reason to stay.

Google Andy Rubin 900,000 twit

It's over 900,000 guys! At this rate there will be over one million Android activations, every single day, by August this year. This is following on from a similar twit/Google+ post from Andy back in December, where he stated that Android had reached a daily activation figure of 700,000. This means that in six months, Android has seen a growth of 28 per cent, quite the impressive figure.

In further comments, Andy also took the opportunity to remind us that the Google I/O developer conference is coming soon, starting June 27th, where it's believed that the firm may unveil Android 5.0 'Jelly Bean', possibly along with an array of Google-branded smartphones and tablets.

T minus 16 days and counting!

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Posted by Brewster0101 - Mon 11 Jun 2012 14:03
Wonder what Apples figures are for monthly activations. :-P
Posted by saltyzip - Mon 11 Jun 2012 14:08
This is indeed a triumph of opensource, long may it continue.
Posted by crossy - Mon 11 Jun 2012 15:04
Google Android Activations reach over 900,000 a day
Hmm, that's the rough equivalent of the entire official population of London every nine days - which seems like a heck of a lot, if true. Or, to use a local (to me at least) that's the population of the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow buying Android phones every day. :surprised:

The reason I'm casting doubts is because, if this is true, then how come that other surveys seem to suggest that Apple's market share is still increasing? Or are these new Android owners coming from other platforms, like Symbian and WP7?

Think I might count for two of those activations since I've still got my old Sony phone alongside my shiny new Samsung one.
Posted by Infinite - Mon 11 Jun 2012 16:33
I think that figure is exaggerated, I believe an activation counts as a clean phone turning on for the first time. Which means that every time a person wipes their phone e.g. after they have loaded a new ROM, it will count as an activation. That means my old HTC HD2 must have done at least 50 “activations.”
Posted by crossy - Mon 11 Jun 2012 16:58
Infinite
I think that figure is exaggerated, I believe an activation counts as a clean phone turning on for the first time. Which means that every time a person wipes their phone e.g. after they have loaded a new ROM, it will count as an activation. That means my old HTC HD2 must have done at least 50 “activations.”
Sorry to disappoint you - but Andy Rubin's been quoted (last time I remember was in All About Android podcast) saying that new ROM's do not count as a “new phone”. What AR has said is that they're counting individual handsets (via IMEI numbers?), so unless you've got some weird way of reprogramming those with your HD2, then you'll only count as 1 activation not 50. It's also been widely claimed that this is underestimating Android's coverage, since WiFi-only kit (PMP and tablets) aren't counted and the swathe of non-Google-Play-equipped kit also isn't counted. Although there's also been some talk that the “official” WiFi-only kit is counted. I'm confused.

EDIT: there's a discussion of this at http://www.androidguys.com/2011/06/29/android-activations-break/ where, interestingly enough, the number of activations is given as "over 500,000" - good growth for just under a year.

And 50 ROM's on an HD2 - you are a real experimenter! ;) (or very bored).

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