AppleInsider Staff
Google on Wednesday announced that its Android mobile platform has seen 900 million total activations to date, while 48 billion applications have been installed on Android devices.
The announcement was made by the search giant at its annual developers' I/O conference. To put the activations in scale, 100 million Android devices were activated as of 2011, while 400 million was reached in 2012.
The company also revealed at I/O that the company has paid out as much to developers so far in 2013 as it did in the entire year 2012.
Google also highlighted the fact that Android market penetration is less than 10 percent in many countries around the world. Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Chrome and Android, noted that Android is seeing strong growth in these areas, and with nearly 7 billion people in the world, the platform has a great deal of room for growth.
Google's announcement of 48 billion application downloads comes as Apple is counting down to the 50 billionth iOS App Store download. The data shows that despite the fact that Android leads in global market share, Apple still has a slight edge in total application downloads.
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I could have sworn Schmidt had already announced that it reached 1 billion, but I guess not.
How many of them are uninstalled immediately after the first run? 47 billion? Roughly.
Better get the bigger screen little expensive phone like $225 with contract and cheaper phone along with 5S (4 and 4S are outdated cheaper phones with useless screen size compared to newer phones which includes iphone5) to dominate the whole market. Give options to future users and get out of the ego. You are no longer THE Steve Jobs!
If Apple cannot get them, then the so called "ecosystem" will be in big trouble. Innovation plus adding options to the existing products is the way to go!
I could have sworn Schmidt had already announced that it reached 1 billion, but I guess not.
Google hype machine on steriods. Stock will probably go up $30 today.
Better get the bigger screen little expensive phone like $225 with contract and cheaper phone along with 5S (4 and 4S are outdated cheaper phones with useless screen size compared to newer phones which includes iphone5) to dominate the whole market. Give options to future users and get out of the ego. You are no longer THE Steve Jobs!
If Apple cannot get them, then the so called "ecosystem" will be in big trouble. Innovation plus adding options to the existing products is the way to go!
Dear Jony,
could you please carry this Management Mantra to Tim Cook? Also, let him know that he is not THE Steve Jobs.