Android activations shoot up to 10 million
By siliconindia   |   Monday, 18 April 2011, 16:46 IST   |    3 Comments
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Android activations shoot up to 10 million
Bangalore:With the increase in the Android mania world wide, Android is now the top smartphone platform.Google reported that Android device users have downloaded and installed three billion applications from the Android Market at the rate of 500 million per month. Google purchased the initial developer of the software, Android, in 2005. The Android Army invasion continues marching this week as Google announced 350,000 device activations take place each day. Google was activating 200,000 Android devices per day. At the rate of 350,000 per day, Google is selling more than 10 million Android phones per month. Android just chalked up its fourth consecutive month as the top platform when it comes to advertising, Android created a revolution with its special applications in the technology world. In the U.S., two separate studies found that Android captured 44 percent of the smartphone market in the third quarter ahead of Apple and Research in Motion. Android won 48 percent of mobile ad impressions. Apple's iOS followed with 31 percent, and RIM came in third with 18 percent. Android users are downloading 16.66 million apps per day, 695,000 apps per hour, 11,500 apps per minute, or 193 apps per second. In January, Apple announced that more than 10 billion apps have been downloaded. Its store carries about 350,000 apps, which is twice the number of the Android Market, which is somewhere near 180,000. iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch users downloaded five billion apps. Apple has seen another two or three billion downloads since January, and the rate is probably one billion downloads per month (or 33.33 million apps per day, 1.3 million apps per hour, 23,000 apps per minute or 386 apps per second).

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