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    Notice Google: Android Activations Top 700,000 a Day

    By Ian Paul, PCWorld




    Every day more than 700,000 people sign up for a new Android device, Google's Android chief, Andy Rubin, said late Tuesday via Twitter and Google+. That works out to nearly 5 million new Android users every week, which is about the equivalent of an iPhone 4S opening weekend every seven days. Rubin also clarified that Google's 700,000 activations per day includes new devices only and not resold ones. "We count each device only once," Rubin said in a follow-up post on Google+. "Activations means you go into a store, buy a device, [and] put it on the network by subscribing to a wireless service."

    Rubin's clarification may have been in response to past criticisms lobbed against Android by Apple's late cofounder Steve Jobs. "We think some of our friends are counting upgrades in their numbers," Jobs said, referring to Android in September 2010. Rubin on Tuesday did not specifically address the issue of counting upgrades, but did say that Google counts each device only once.

    Earlier in December, Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, said there were about 550,000 Android phones being activated every day, according to CNET. But it appears Schmidt was specifically taking about phones, while Rubin only mentioned "devices" suggesting he may be counting phones as well as 3G-enabled tablets such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab or the recently launched Droid Xyboard devices.

    Rubin in June said there were 500,000 Android activations every day.

    Google is the most popular smartphone platform in the United States, with nearly 42 percent market share, followed by Apple's iPhone at 27.1 percent, according to metrics firm comScore.

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    Thats funny... Seeing as Android is found on 100 different phones... Wheres as IOS is ONE..

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    Why is that funny






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    Because the iphone is the Gold standard Android dreams of becoming.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MuddyGut View Post
    Because the iphone is the Gold standard Android dreams of becoming.


    I'd rather have my android.
    I wanted to be a Monk, but I never got the chants.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RBP View Post


    I'd rather have my android.
    no comment. <--- other than that one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MuddyGut View Post
    Because the iphone is the Gold standard Android dreams of becoming.
    No it isn't...Google couldn't care less about the iPhone. Google makes software, not hardware, and let's the manufacturer decide which OS they want on their phone.

    Quote Originally Posted by RBP View Post


    I'd rather have my android.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thelancinator View Post
    Google couldn't care less about the iPhone.
    Did you read this somewhere?

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    Quote Originally Posted by MuddyGut View Post
    Did you read this somewhere?
    I did.
    I wanted to be a Monk, but I never got the chants.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RBP View Post
    I did.

    Where?

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    Post #7!!

    I wanted to be a Monk, but I never got the chants.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MuddyGut View Post
    Did you read this somewhere?
    Do you see any Google manufactured phones?

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    Quote Originally Posted by thelancinator View Post
    Do you see any Google manufactured phones?
    google is absolutely concerned with Apples market share... Google is there for one reason. To make money... The more phones they put their shitty interface on the more money they make...

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    Yeah, shitty interface....that's why Android has approximately one and a half times the size of the market share that crApple does. Whatever you say there bubba

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