Friday, July 1, 2011

Android has 500000 activations per day, says Andy Rubin

No less than half a million Android devices are activated every day, with average growth of 4.4% per week, says Andy Rubin, "father" of the little robot in the operating system your Twitter account.


In last May, at the time said it had 100 million active devices worldwide Android, Google said that 400,000 new devices with the little robot came into activity every day. On the wave of "spectacular" growth, analysts say that the OS is expected to end 2011 with "more than one million" of daily activations.

Despite the strength of the numbers of Android or Apple or iOS have much to complain about or fear. Estimates made ​​by the GigaOM site said Apple should close the second quarter of 2011 with its mobile platform to registering sales of more than 26 million made ​​earlier this year that resulted in 289 000 activations per day.

Already companies that insist on other platforms do not seem to navigate the seas so calm. According to analysts at Real Clear Markets, Nokia should have one of its best quarters, and according to a survey released earlier this month the Finnish company is expected to end the quarter, "falling", without specifying numbers.