Daily Android activations surpass 350,000 mark

Here go the iFanboys blowing smoke again. If Android sucked, then its numbers wouldn’t be so high. Look at Symbian, which was #1 and is now declining, and Windows phones (before Win 7)–they never took off. Google’s Android is a product that provides more features and customization than iOS could ever hope to. That’s what’s making it sell. Crap won’t sell. Good stuff will.
Sure, go ahead and compare that it’s one phone against the world. That logic holds up to a point.

“It’s the OS, stupid.”

– “Here go the iFanboys blowing smoke again. If Android sucked, then its numbers wouldn’t be so high.”

What smoke? Did I say Android sucked? Absolutely not. I was just explaining the differences between “Android” and the iPhone. They have different business models altogether.

Of course Android sells well… you can get it anywhere on many different phones. Like I said… I’m not shocked by that.

– “Crap won’t sell. Good stuff will.”

Define “crap” and “good stuff” please.

The iPhone will always sell. Apple will be selling cell phones for the rest of our lives. Yes… there are more phones sold that run Google’s Android OS than the iPhone. Yet… I don’t think that really bothers Apple. The iPhone hasn’t lost money for Apple yet.

How long has Windows pummeled the Mac? Apple isn’t discontinuing the Mac because of low sales either.

It just gives a choice, people chose Android first then cellphone.
People chose iOS first then cellphone which is one.

The reason to why Android is selling so much is cause they have phones in all prices.
While iPhone only sells expensive phones, just like PC vs Mac.

If Apple thought it was a smart thing to sell more than 1 phone they would have done so, but they would have lost. It wouldn’t be good for business, they do what they do. They are happy with 8-9% of the computer market, and they will be happy with 15% of the smartphone market. While Google won’t be happy until they are the biggest cause that’s the reasonable goal and reasonable tactics to make it work.
While Apple makes it work by doing what they do.

So you have not to pay for a samsung or htc device? cool. BTW, Android is no more completely “open”. Sorry.

Its still way more open than apple. You can put anything next tto apple and it will seem open, even a nuns legs are more open than apple.

But Apple doesn’t want to be the paladin of openness. Google do. So no problem for Apple.

But at Google somebody it’s just a bit of hypocritical.

so you’re saying all that fragmentation makes it better?
you, sir, does not have an iOS device.

No, he ‘Do Not’!

You get what you pay for huh.

Fuck your free and open asshole.

I think he’s referring to the automatic iTunes backups with each sync.

Which is only “automatic” when you plug it in? What a lame ass Ferrari for an OS, and fyi, Android is the Bugatti Veyron of smartphone OS.

Yes, I am referring to the automatic backups that occur every time I sync my iPhone 3Gs with iTunes. Everything is backed, up, contacts, calendar, apps, settings, game saves, etc, so that if my phone dies and I have to get another, all I have to do is connect it to iTunes and it will be set up EXACTLY like the old one. Is ANY stock Android phone able to do that? Short answer: NO And that is why I prefer the Apple way of doing things. I have a NexusOne that I use for work because its carrier works more in more places than AT&T does around here. I shudder to think what I would have to go through in order to bring a new Android phone up to date with software, email, contacts, applications

One, it’s not “iO/S,” it’s “iOS.”

Two, Android will “dominate” market share relative to the iPhone, but that’s it, because people love the one-cent phones and BOGO offers. Thanks in part to Android’s commoditization, the iPhone dominates in revenue and profit, which is good because revenue and profit are the whole point of business. It’s why Google yesterday reported a $2.3 billion dollar “net income,” not a 30% Android market share.

FYI, Apple’s last quarterly report put its iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad) profit at $4 billion with 377K devices announced a day, and that was before the iPad 2.

Oh, and it’s not that the iPhone is a Ferrari compared to Android; it’s that iOS is. It’s why there isn’t a single carrier worldwide where Android sales exceed iPhone sales. It’s also why Apple makes real money while Android OEMs don’t, and why no one’s buying Android tablets.

Cheers.

You get so insanely butthurt at every positive thing you hear about android. Did Google rape your maw and kill your paw?

Every carrier has more Android sales than iphone sales, and that’s a fact. Otherwise how would you explain androids smartphone domination?

I hate when I hear this canard about BOGO driving Android sales. I’m sure it has helped, but it is clearly not the driving factor. One of the only BOGO offers I remember seeing is on the original Droid, just as the Droid 2 was coming or had come out. And how many one cent Android devices are sold? I know not many, when I see the most popular Android devices are devices that cost >$100.

I also find it interesting when I see iFans switch positions on topics over and over. Before iPhone became dominant, market share was never uttered and was always eschewed. After it became dominant, suddenly market share was a talking point. Now that Android is winning, the iFans are scrambling and the only thing they can offer is that Apple is making a lot of money and justifying their business practices. How does taking more of your money to be put in to a cash hoard at Apple help you, the consumer?

@Patrick Crumpler

If there are 9 Android phones sitting on a shelf… and only 1 iPhone… statistically more Android phones will sell.

And that’s great for Google and their ad sales. But when you think of each Android phone manufacturer… those numbers get spread-out among all the manufacturers.

Apple sold 16,200,000 iPhones last quarter… Motorola would kill for those numbers.

This article isn’t even about phone sales by manufacturers. Its about Google activations. The shear number of Android operating systems being activated/registered on their servers.

And its pretty clear why Android is spreading so fast. People like choices. Not everyone wants to have the exact same phone, with the exact same look. The mere fact iphone owners are so defensive on here is proof of how good Android is.

iphones aren’t so bad. It’s the arrogant, brain washed apple fans which annoy me. Lose the superiority complex. Your phone is in 2nd place now. ugg….

I love how you hate brainwashed fanboys… yet in the next breath, you say “Your phone is in 2nd place now.”

I have a Blackberry, BTW…

Funny that from your “perspective” Android is only popular because of BOGO offers and 1 cent deals. I guess that is why high end phones like the Thunderbolt @ $249 are selling so well? Leave it to you genius iBoys to reveal the truth about why Android is popular. I guess the fact that nearly every Android phone I see is a high end one has just totally been shot down by an iGenius who really knows the truth that everyone is buying 1 cent and BOGO Android phones. Who would have known….

@Michael Scrip

And Chrysler would kill for Toyota’s sales, but they seem to be quite happy where they are. Android saved Motorola’s mobility division. And I’m sure they are happy with just that for now. Nobody has to be compared to Apple’s revenue in order to make a living. They just aren’t making a filthy stinking rich living like Apple. All that revenue Apple makes can’t make or stop people from buying Android devices and making money for Motorola, HTC, LG, etc.

So really, people could say Donald Trump has more revenue than Michael Scrip and that you are just a piece of scum on the side of the street because you don’t have revenue like he does. Somehow I would think you would disagree with that.

I have only one point I disagree with, where you state: “but Android *will* dominate.”

Um, it already does. It’s #1 worldwide, just having passed Symbian for the first time.

Ever heard of MobileMe? I have been doing this for years now. Get educated!

android has been doing it for years and for free.

Apple manufactures?

Then why is it an LG screen, a Samsung processor, Samsung Memory, and a Texas Instruments cell radio inside it assembled in Foxconn?

I hate the “Apple manufactures their own stuff” bullshit.

an iPhone 4 is the same goddamn phone as a Samsung Galaxy S, but with a shittier antenna.

WOW! Love that reply!

Yes, apple gets all their hardware from trees which grow in magical fields which are fed with revolutionary streams that save apple any sort of overhead what so ever in the production, manufacturing and R&D on any of their products. This is how they ensure 100% profit as you see it. Remarkable. Ingenious. Facetime!

That $10 they make per phone is their estimated yearly income form ads on each phone. $10 is all they make period! Get Educated!

Get a life!! It’s not that deep ‘Test’.

POS devices? Don’t forget that Android would look like BB or Win Mobile if Apple didn’t reinvent mobile phones. You should stop bashing and give credit where it is due. And the iphone costs a lot more than $10 to produce. Are simple or something?

Then how come everything from the iOS home screen, lock screen, and dialing screen look remarkably like Palm’s 2003 touchscreen phone patents?

Goddamn kool-aid drinkers.

Actually, Google could have copied HTC TouchFlo, or SPB Mobile Shell – both on WinMo well before the iPhone was ever publicly announced. But I bet they would have done a better job of copying the interface, unlike Apple’s poor knock-off…

So something that is EASIER to use, more open to the public, and widely accepted is bad?

Gee, isn’t that the koolaid club’s arguments as to why the iPod took off?

If this were true more of them would be buying WP7.

“South Korea’s Hyundai Motor and its affiliate, Kia Motors , have increased their sales target by 3 percent to 6.5 million vehicles this year,

The move came as the two South Korean carmakers, which together rank fifth in global car sales, are expected to gain market share after their Japanese rivals such as Toyota, Honda and Nissan were hit by production disruption following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.”

You Walter Sobchak, are clearly the idiot here.

Where’d you read that, on your iPhone?
If you look long enough you can find anything.
Idiot

It may be difficult on your drrooooiiidd to find facts. In the real world, it’s very simple. You are the idiot. And a fool liar. Try Google, you should be able to find that. If not ask someone.

Why didn’t someone say the internet settled the case? This changes everything. Just wondering, in the case summary, how many times was Oracle referred to as Nazis or “faggz”?