Right around the beginning of May at the I/O event, Google revealed its daily Android activation data, which turned out to be 400,000 Android activations daily. It’s been two months, and now Google’s Android boss Andy Rubin has an adjustment he’d like to make to the numbers. “There are now 500,000 Android devices activated every day, and it’s growing at 4.4% w/w,” tweeted Rubin this morning.
Just a couple weeks ago, Android’s market share dipped for the first time since 2009 according to IDC. However, that had a lot to do with Verizon’s iPhone 4 and less to do with a drop in Android sales. Clearly, Android devices are flying off the shelves and we don’t expect to see that change anytime soon.
Apple doesn’t announce daily iPhone activations the way Google does, so it’s difficult to compare. Here’s a little perspective, though: In the second quarter, from January to March, Verizon and AT&T activated a total of 5.8 million iPhones. That would mean that in the 88 days of the quarter, the carriers sold just under 66,000 iPhones a day. Obviously, that makes the iPhone seem obsolete next to 500,000 Android activations a day, but remember, the iPhone is just one phone. iOS doesn’t appear on anything but Apple’s hardware, whereas Android comes in a number of different OEM flavors, so it’s almost unfair to draw a comparison.
[via Twitter]
