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Rapid growth in Asia drives Google's Android
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 14 December 2010, 23:21 IST |
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Bangalore: Asia, world's largest and most populous continent, has about approximately 4 billion people and hosts about 60 percent of the world's current human population. The rapid growth in Asia has been one of the reasons for the latest jump in sales of smartphones running Google, Android operating system reports
Richard Waters for Financial Times.
Andy Rubin, the executive in charge of Google's mobile software effort, said that international expansion lay behind the latest advance. Speaking in an interview with the Financial Times, he also predicted that a boom in sales in India, Brazil, Indonesia and other emerging countries would contribute to the fast growth rate for the foreseeable future.
"After the U.S., we saw Asia go crazy," he said, with sales in South Korea in particular going 'berserk' in the past four months.
More than 300,000 Android handsets are activated each day, according to Google, up from 200,000 in August. By contrast, Apple reported shipments of 14.1m iPhones during its most recent quarter, to September 25, or roughly 150,000 a day.
Quoting independent research suggesting that Android has also come to account for half of smartphone shipments in China, Rubin said that the open-source nature of the software had made it popular there. However, in the wake of Google's dispute over censorship with the Chinese government, Android handsets shipped by China Mobile, the dominant supplier, do not carry the company's search or e-mail services
