Android Platform Reaches 200M Activated Devices, Pace Remains Constant at 550K Per Day
Google’s Android platform has now seen 200 million device activations, the company said today at a music event in Los Angeles. The pace of Android’s growth may have stabilized however, at 550,000 activations per day. That’s the same figure the company shared in July during an earnings call.
The new data Google shared today may put the Android platform within spitting distance of iOS’s footprint. Apple said it had cumulatively sold 250 million iOS devices in October during its earnings call. Keep in mind that both companies use different terms — Google counts device activations while Apple counts devices cumulatively sold.
Independent measurement companies like Nielsen and comScore have reported for several months that Android has more mobile subscribers in the U.S. But when you take into account iPads and iPods, Apple still probably offers the largest raw market size for developers. We see this when we look at proxies for comparing the Android and iOS footprints, like counting monthly active users for Facebook’s apps on both platforms. Apple still leads there with 95.8 million monthly actives for Facebook’s iOS apps compared to the Android app’s 77.7 million monthly actives.
November 16th, 2011 at 8:44 pm
[...] Independent measurement companies like Nielsen and comScore have reported for several months that Android has more mobile subscribers in the U.S. But when you take into account iPads and iPods, Apple still probably offers the largest raw market size for developers. We see this when we look at proxies for comparing the Android and iOS footprints, like counting monthly active users for Facebook’s apps on both platforms. Apple still leads there with 95.8 million monthly actives for Facebook’s iOS apps compared to the Android app’s 77.7 million monthly actives.（source:insidemobileapps） [...]
November 17th, 2011 at 7:35 am
[...] had seen 4.5 billion installs on a market base of 100 million activated devices. Yesterday, it revealed that the platform now has double that number with 200 million activated devices and we understand from a well-placed source that Android has passed 8 billion cumulative app [...]
December 20th, 2011 at 9:11 pm
[...] has seen at least 200 million total device activations through mid-November. That’s just behind the 250 million figure that Apple shared about [...]
January 20th, 2012 at 11:27 am
[...] November Google reported it had activated 200 million devices, which means consumers have activated an average of 770,000 devices a day since Nov. 15, a much [...]