The numbers for Google’s Android just keep growing. Google’s VP of Mobile and head honcho Android man Andy Rubin has announced on micro-blogging site Twitter that the Android Operating System is now getting 500,000 ! Android device activations a day.
A Gadgethelpline post says, “These figures cement the idea that Google is continually on the rise and really is showcasing the impact and penetration the OS is having on the Smartphone, Software and Tablet market with half a million devices going live each day.”
“Early in May this year Google announced that Android activations were upto 400,000 a day with 100 million cumulative device activations, representing 36 OEMs, 215 carriers and 310 devices. The pace of growth has been staggering for Android, which hit the 100,000 activations per day milestone in May 2010. The number was upto 300,000 a day by December 2010,” reports a Gigaom blog.
Android will now be splitting it’s systems with the releases of Android 3.0 Honeycomb for tablets, Android 2.3 Gingerbread for Mobile (2.3 + being considered for older mobiles) and the future Android Ice Cream Sandwich (possibly 4.0) for the next generation of smartphones.
However, all of these benefits are not enjoyed by Google’s Android alone. The rise of Android has helped prove beneficial for a number of companies like HTC which has become a household name and also helped Samsung emerge as a major player in smartphones.
Currently, Google’s Android has a market share of 36 per cent in the smartphone OS market, which has increased so much in the past year that it has now overtaken Apple which has 26% share with their iOS devices. Android has been the most popular smartphone platform for quite some time, both globally and in the U.S.