Google on Android: mobile search grew 300%, 160,000 activations daily, 70,000 Market apps

By on Jul 17, 2010 at 3:50 PM
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Google announced its second quarter 2010 earnings on Thursday, and the earnings conference call painted a rosy picture of the current state of Android. According to Google CFO Patrick Pichette, and Senior VP of Product management Jonathan Rosenberg, Android is currently not a huge resource investment for Google but promises a “formidable return” as the “entire ecosystem is exploding.” According to Rosenberg, the web browser is the most popular app on an Android device with search being its  primary usage. As a result, mobile search on Android grew 300% in the first half of 2010. Rosenberg did not cite specific figures but estimated that mobile search is growing alongside desktop search and not taking away from it. Prichette confirmed that Google’s acquisition of AdMob is translating into buku bucks as Android gains momentum; he also points out that Google is recording 160,000 Android device activations daily. The Android Market is also growing and now boasts of over 70,000 applications, up from the 30,000 it reported in April. Impressive numbers for the two and half year old mobile OS.

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  • Joe c.

    Good for google, now close it up, curate, beatify, and then there is no reason to buy an iPhone.

    Posted from my iPhone 4, by the way

    • http://www.meegodevelopment.com Meego development

      Hahaha i thought that was funny :)

      iSucks4

  • Frank

    This should give the Fandroids wood……..

    • ChocoTaco

      And the iPhonies a sour tummy :’(

  • The Truth

    This is not really surprising. I mean a “new and powerful” Android comes out every month.

    So of course when you flood the market and screw the user you get a huge increase across the board.

    ***they screw the user because no matter what Android phone you buy it will become EOL in 6 months…. were an iphone doesn’t depreciate as fast and can resale for big bucks.

    • Mrwirez

      Only if you can afford an early termination fee.. The iphone is EOL in 11 months…Who cares? Apple has ONE phone on ONE carrier and they all look the same.. You have been assimilated.

      Btw.. a more powerful, up to date phone, with a better OS, on all the network carriers globally every six months is just horrible? OK pal.

    • Sonar_Chris

      You bought a phone on the basis of resale in 2 years? That is about the most stupid thing I have ever heard.

    • Ben

      I don’t know about AT&T but with Verizon Wireless you can just sign up for a one year contract. thats what i did for the Droid X and i get to upgrade in 12 months

    • Jenny G

      “were [sic] an iphone doesn’t depreciate as fast and can resale for big bucks.”

      As long as the buyer is not looking for a phone that can make a phone call.

      • Dan

        so many retards on this site like you jenny g

        as far as the i4 goes, im enjoying the best smart phone ever created. Makes calls just fine. Havent dropped a single call. May be because im in the northeast but whatever.

      • Mrwirez

        Hmm retards..Iphone4? Best phone ever created?? That my friend is a matter of opinion.. I’ll take an Incredible or DroidX any day over that phone. It is flawed. Period

  • http://www.androidfreeapps.org androidfreeapps

    This should give the Fandroids wood……..

    • Neo

      And they can use that wood and stick it in their ass.

      • Joe B.

        Kinda like Steve Jobs sticks it in the fanboys asses with each and every fail phone purchase. Medicocre behind the times smartphones never smelled so good :)

    • http://www.androiddevelopmenttalk.com Android app development

      Ya definitely it is going to and along with the number of apps in the Android Market .
      70,000+ thats awesome

  • iPwnNubs4Fun

    @Neo,

    stop badmouthing people just because of something they like. in fact, why don’t you follow the ‘pink rabbit’? or take the ‘red pill’?

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

  • Aluni

    Clearly, if it was so rosy Google would NOT have missed their revenue target. On the other hand Apple will announce earnings on July 20th.

    Also, activations does NOT mean new phone sales. Android with more phones in different price ranges, including buy one get one and on more networks should be selling more overall than the iPhone.

    As much as folks don’t like Apple, at least they give you actual $ breakdown of where their revenue is coming from. When you can’t say how much revenue Android is bringing you….it seems Google is still struggling to find their next revenue model.

    Whether you like it or not, last Q Apple reported 130% growth in iPhone revenue. No one else even came close to that! I bet this Q will be no different. The iPhones are all sold out. Apple could not sell more even if they wanted to. So why should they lose sleep over Google? On the other hand, google losing sleep over iAd and apple locking them out? You bet!

    • SupAll

      Google isn’t a phone manufacturer, please get that through your thick skull. It generates its income from Ads, and by having a powerful OS on a dozens of phones and all the carriers, combined with things such as BOGO, you give Google a very powerful platform to generate revenue. Google knows what it wants to do with Android, how to make it better, easier, and how to generate income. At the rate Google is going, it will not be long before it generates some numbers that will make the iPhone look weak. After all, Apple’s iOS is established and has been so for a long time. Its growth isn’t phenomenal and seems to have plateaued as of late. You can’t say the same for Android.

    • Nerdstaz

      Lol healthy competition is always worth losing sleep over. Apples 130% growth won’t mean anything when you apply that to going from 10 users to 13..

      Here are the facts:

      Windows PCs. Android phones. They are customizable and I can do damn near what I want with them.

      Apple products? They have some proprietorial software that no one can compete with because Apple makes it impossible for healthy competition by monopolizing stuff like Bill Gates tried to do and he got screwed. Remember when XP came out? Internet Explorer, Windows Messenger, and some other default Windows programs were a topic of a law suit from Apple because it prevented Apple shit from communicating. Apple gets their balls in a bunch over ridiculous shit too. Don’t pretend that doesn’t happen.

      The difference between an Apple user and others is simple:

      Apple users just want things to work and work right.They are calm and accept mediocrity.

      Others want things to work how they want or need them to work and have flexibility that doesn’t included dropping more $$ every time the internet adds a new .com. Others want complete control. We don’t want to buy a new expensive electronic and have some technological Hitler tell us we have to use it his way and off the rest. Android phones are so great I can program on the phone and develop right there. I can do what I want and what I need. Windows 7 is faster than MacOS at the moment. It is nothing but healthy competition.

      One thing you fools need to drop out of is the hypnotic Apple press conferences. Those are just technological propagandist attempts to make you believe what they say. Stop being a bunch of pre-pubescent fan boys and read between the lines. Shit happens and sometimes it happens to Apple too. If you want to believe their BS and still buy their product, it is your money spend it how you may. Real adults just tend to do educational research and purchase based on whats good…not what looks good with his Mercedes and new dress shoes.

      iWont.

      • Nerdstaz

        I am a phandroid, because it does what I need it to do. If Apple opened up a bit, I would buy a Mac.

        I have a laptop with an i7, 6 gigs of 1333 DDR3…anti-gloss 1080p screen and an nvidia 330gt….it was 1200 bucks. The closest thing to that in the Apple store will cost you 4 grand. Go price it. And no 1080p for you!

      • Nerdstaz

        a Mac and an iPhone.*

  • Jared

    “two and half year old mobile OS”? I count one year eight months.

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