Android founder and current Senior Vice President of Mobile at Google, Andy Rubin, has thrown down the latest sensational fact about the growth of the Android platform, revealing that over half a million Android devices are now activated every day.
Rubin pegs the rate of growth of the mobile OS at an incredible 4.4% week on week, adding up to an incredible rise in popularity for the Apple iOS rival.
The increase is staggering: only last month Google were reporting 400,000 Android daily activations, so hitting the 500,000 daily activations landmark so soon really is some achievement.
Here’s how the Android platform has grown over the last two years:
May 2009: 30,000 Android activations per day
May 2010: 100,000 per day
August 2010: 200,000 per day
December 2010: 300,000 per day
April 2011: 350,000 per day
June 2011: 400,000 per day
At the current rate of growth, Google are on track to hit a million device activations per day by the end of October…
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