900 million Android devices have been activated since Google's mobile operating system launched to consumers four and a half years ago. The impressive stat was revealed by Android / Chrome boss Sundar Pichai on stage at Google I/O 2013. Chairman Eric Schmidt has forecasted that Android could cross the billion activation mark by the end of this year.
Pichai also shared new details on Google Play's momentum with consumers: over 48 billion apps have been installed thus far — not far off from the 50 billion Apple's iOS platform is about to reach. 2.5B of those came in the last month alone. Revenue per user has also doubled year-over-year.
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And here’s an Android for you.. and for you..
By bokonon on 05.15.13 12:12pm
1 Billion by Fall. This is insane growth!
By ddpacino on 05.15.13 12:13pm
12.9% of the entire world population. Jesus…
By lsenkowsky on 05.15.13 12:15pm
Ummm … wait a minute … let’s not get TOO carried away!
How many Android devices do you currently own? (I have a Nexus 4 and a Nexus 7.) So maybe it’s only 6% – 7% of the world’s population? Still, not bad …
But how many Android devices have you previously owned that are now discarded or lying idle somewhere? (I’ve had half a dozen phones / tablets, some of which are now gathering dust, some of which I sold on eBay, but I have no idea whether they are still “alive”.)
And if you do a lot of “rooting and romming” – have you noticed how many “Devices” end up in your Play store account? I wonder if Google counts these as “activations”?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not accusing Google of fudging the figures, but “activations” =/= “current users”.
By julianh72 on 05.15.13 6:33pm
You know what’s cool? 1 Billion activations.
By ken27238 on 05.15.13 12:16pm
The growth is amazing.
Off topic: Did IO kill The Verge? :o
By Chaz_UK on 05.15.13 12:16pm
yeah saw that too.
By gustokohappyka on 05.15.13 12:18pm
Also, Feedly isn’t picking up on The Verge’s RSS feed. None of today’s posts are showing up.
By ken27238 on 05.15.13 12:19pm
They’ve been experiencing some issues with the site. You can follow the progress on their support twitter account.
By Alex Thompson on 05.15.13 12:22pm
1 million of those are all from flashing ROMs on my GS3….
By Webran61 on 05.15.13 12:17pm
*GRUMPYCAT *No!
http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/20/googles-andy-rubin-defines-android-activation-trumpets-700-0/
:p
By Chaz_UK on 05.15.13 12:19pm
That’s a lot!!.. well done Google.. ( still don’t like you )
By kinpin on 05.15.13 12:17pm
That is not a small number…
By NathanIngraham on 05.15.13 12:17pm
Isn’t it for app installs and not downloads though?
By Harshil Shah on 05.15.13 12:34pm
“fortunately fucking”
By signalspikes on 05.15.13 12:24pm
And howmuch $ google made from those 900m activations and 48b app downloads ?
By vish2801 on 05.15.13 1:02pm
Depends how much advertising Google are pushing out to android devices and services. My next question would be how much MS has creamed off OEMs from all those devices!
By Maceo3121 on 05.15.13 1:47pm