Google: Android activations up to 550,000 per day

By on Jul 15, 2011 at 7:30 PM
mobile July 15, 2011

Google’s Android activations aren’t slowing down anytime soon. The search giant announced in its second-quarter earnings report yesterday that there are now 550,000 Android smartphones activated each day. That’s a massive figure, and it’s up from June when Google’s Andy Rubin revealed that his company was activating a half a million devices daily. Rubin also noted in June that activations were growing at a rate of 4.4% week over week. If that growth isn’t stunning enough, get this: just two months ago Google said that it was activating 400,000 devices each day and that there were 100 million Android devices in use worldwide. That number is now up to about 130 million and going by Google’s newly revealed stats, it sounds like 200 million devices isn’t that far out of reach.

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  • Anonymous

    Fragmentation = the new AIDS virus

    • http://www.twitter.com/wixostrix WixosTrix

      that’s horrible

  • Anonymous

    So Google is “activating” 550K devices a day, yet the iPhone generates more revenue and profit than Google’s entire business, and Amazon is about to use Android’s “openness” to beat Google over the head. Yay for Google!

    • Anonymous

      Because android is a open source platform. They’re not there to make money off the operating system. They never said they were.

      Everything is to cater to their main business – Advertising.

      Although android is very profitable, it will never be as profitable as a closed system which isn’t licensed.

      • Anonymous

        All Prespectively talks about is revenue it seems. 

      • Anonymous

        He’s an idiot fanboy trying to troll and failing at that.

      • Anonymous

        And Apple’s iPhone generates more revenue and profit than the entire business of Google does. Period. No matter which way you cut it Google sucks at making money.

      • Anonymous

        Yeah, $9 billion in 4 months. What’s wrong with them? Why can’t they make any money?

      • dumbass

        what? lol. 

    • http://www.twitter.com/wixostrix WixosTrix

      Well yeah, seeing as Apple makes money from iPhone sales plus app, music, video, and ringtone purchases while Google makes nothing from Android device sells.  All the make is money from licensing fees to use Google Apps (Gmail, Maps, etc), ad revenue, and app purchases.

      • Anonymous

        No, they make money from selling the eyeballs of its users. That’s the whole point of Android.

        Advertising.

      • http://www.twitter.com/wixostrix WixosTrix

        Right but they do charge licensing fees for their apps as well as take a cut from app sales. I know the majority of it is advertising, duh. :)

        Sent from my Windows Phone
        ________________________________

      • Mesol Turner

        I’ll take angry birds for free at the cost of a tiny ad that I can ignore… oh I guess everything on my phone has been free w00 more money for hookers

    • Rick Rolled.

      Probably because ANDROID IS AN OS YOU FUCKING TWAT. Google only makes a portion of the profits from each android phone since they don’t make the hardware.

  • Scott Edwards

    Why don’t they ever announce “sold” rather than “activations”

    • Anonymous

      Because activations is the number that matters. What’s the point if the device is sitting in some warehouse?

      Sold will be a higher number since it will count refurbished devices twice.

      • Henry Earl

        If a device is “sold” that means its in someone’s hands and not in a warehouse.
        Activations are an inflated number. Technically speaking, if itake the sim out of an iphone, restore it, then put the sim back in, thats an activation.
        If they are activating 550k a day, that would mean something in te area of 14-15 million a month. I dont recall any manufacturers stating that they were anywhere close to selling that many units that fast. Again, inflated numbers.

      • Anonymous

        Wrong. The activation is done by the unique serial number found on each phone.. Please do some research before you make false claims.

        14-15 million a month is perfectly reasonable. Don’t be naive. Google sells android in over 200 countries.

        Go google the market share in asian countries. For example: google has over 70% market share in south korea.

        Because android is open source, most manufacturers are using the operating system worldwide in the home language.

      • Anonymous

        As long as you believe Google. Because they never lie.

    • Anonymous

      What you’re talking about is Android devices “shipped” vs. Android devices “sold”. This article, however, doesn’t say anything about devices “shipped”.

      Oh, you’re also proving you’re a moron.

      • Anonymous

        The argument is that by using anything but the word “sold” (and you know Google could get this data), it seems fishy. Why not just say how many were actually sold?

        Using a poorly defined term with only Google to vouch for it is akin to saying “shipped”; it could be = to sales, or it could be =/=.

  • Anonymous

    Android rules.

  • Cer

    Neverending stream of e-waste FTW!

  • Anonymous

    How many devices were SOLD versus how many were activated?

    • Anonymous

      A lot more are sold. But no official number.

      • Anonymous

        Or a lot less. We don’t know.

        Unless you trust Google implicitly.

      • Anonymous

        It’s not about trust. It’s common sense.

    • Brian

      They don’t want to hear anything logical

  • Anonymous

    That’s inconceivable. 

    • Anonymous

      I don’t think that word means what you think it means.

  • Anonymous

    I read this, and thought that I would share this with you:

     

    It’s easy to see why RIM will be the dominant Smartphone
    player in the east.

     

    Apple is an American company; Apple pays taxes to the American
    government. The government uses that money to purchase weapons and missiles, to
    use against the people of the east.

     

    Android is software made by Google. Google is an American
    company; Google pays taxes to the American government. The government uses that
    money to purchase weapons and missiles, to use against the people of the east.

     

    Nokia and Microsoft together. Microsoft is an American
    company; Microsoft pays taxes to the American government. The government uses
    that money to purchase weapons and missiles, to use against the people of the
    east.

     

    RIM is a Canadian company. Canadians love everyone. 

     

    Nokia use to do very well out east. But now that they have
    joined an American company, it’s an entire new ball game.

    • Anonymous

      Oh, good. You’ve turned an unrelated article into a chance to villify the United States.

      Here’s a newsflash: the U.S. government puts a lot more thought into war, missiles, and the East than the U.S. citizens ever did. Do you want proof? The Canadian company you mentioned is getting its butt handed to it by a bunch of American companies. Go away.

      • RipVanWinkle

        This all won’t matter August 2nd when the US defaults on their loan taking down the entire world economy with it.

      • Anonymous

        Hopefully the East knows where they should spend their money.

      • Anonymous

        McDonalds ?

      • Anonymous

        McDonalds will make them fat and kill the people earlier.
        It’s the secret weapon that very few people know about !

    • Anonymous

      Only that RIM is gonna get their assess kicked because they won’t let the governments monitor everything their users are doing.

      • Anonymous

        Oh no ….. they need to get duplicate keys from the carriers if they wish to monitor it real time. It’s like cloning a BB. 1 message gets sent to 2 different places.

    • Anonymous

      Nuke the east. Kill em all and let the coroner sort em out. 

      • RipVanWinkle

         That would mean that WallyMart can no longer exist because they would have no more warez to sell. Where then will you shop.

      • Shanghai Dan

        Then who would make your iPhone and iPad?

      • Anonymous

        And that is why we won’t buy American phones or American software.

      • http://twitter.com/trick202 Rich Fletcher

        “we”? 

        Why not start your own phone company then? It’s a free market.

        You could be the TATA of the phone world.

    • http://twitter.com/trick202 Rich Fletcher

      Where are most devices MANUFACTURED then?

  • We_are_all_witnesses

    75% of those are probably cricket. Haha!! Android sucks!

    • Anonymous

      Good for you. Smart one figures out that his favorite operating system is getting raped by another.

    • sirpaul

      Hahahahaha…ha……ha. Wait that’s not funny. Guess it’s you that sucks! How can the OS with most market share suck.

      • RipVanWinkle

        Google will rake in a lot of money from your clicks and activity and will also know more about you than you! LOLZ

        youtube – watch?v=hrontojPWEE

      • sirpaul

        That’s cool with me. Google can have all the info they want, and the gov already has everything else so why should I care.

      • Anonymous

        Because the world is full of poor people.  Easy when you think about it !!!!

      • sirpaul

        Poor people buy dumbphones made by Nokia, not Android-powered devices.

      • Anonymous

        Where I come from all the poor people have Android things
        We call em leppers

      • Steve Lee

        So I guess Rich idiot like you would spend $50 for Burger because its called iburger

      • Anonymous

        yep

      • Anonymous

        Just like I will pay £60 – £100 for Nike trainers £60- 80 for Levi’s jeans or £80 – 150 for a Boss top While you walk around with your Android phone and your Addidas 4 stripes :)

      • http://twitter.com/cdoruff Collin Doruff

        Dont let your parents see this on your family computer and ground you for being so plainly rude.

      • Anonymous

        lol how old do you think I am? Just because people have different opinions to you dont mean they are like 12 years old pal!

    • Steve Lee

      Go troll some where else retarded baster

  • Anonymous

    Too bad 95% of these “activations” are pieces of junk crapdroids and kindles or nook colors.  true story™©®

    • Anonymous

       here you go again with your same crap…..FACT

    • http://twitter.com/cdoruff Collin Doruff

      I seriously hope that 500,000 nooks arent activated every day.
      Theres just no way.
      Not THAT many people want those things.

    • Anonymous

      I thought i would find you here, trolling around. Why you so pissy all the time? Does your mommy want you to move out of her basement? Or did she forget to bring you your fishsticks

  • idontdroid

    RISE!!!! DROID!!! RISE!!!! DROID ARMY CRUSH ICLONE AND ITS SHEEP

    • Anonymous

      shut up you flid

      • Anonymous

        wtf is flid? I do agree with the shut up tho

  • Anonymous

    I learned google will be gone in 2 years. And so I figure apple in less than 1 year.

    • RipVanWinkle

       August 2nd is Default Day so maybe even earlier than 2 or 1 year. LOLZ

    • Steve Lee

      I think Steve Jobs will live longer than 1 yrs.. or can we do something about that ?

    • Anonymous

      yes steve the immortal how can he die!? 

  • Mec

    Open is not always a good thing. Just ask the prisoner with the sore asshole.

  • Anonymous

    Android can have 1 million activations a day and it still sucks.

  • http://www.sk1wbw.wordpress.com Wayne Williams

    Activates or sells?  Is there a difference?  Over a year period, that would be over two hundred million handsets. Aren’t there only a finite amount of people that buy cell phones?  I don’t think everyone buying a cell phone is buying an Android, are they?  

    • Anonymous

      Well all the poor people are yes 

      • http://twitter.com/5murfette Mr Smurf

        Yeah and upper-class people like us have to separate from that group by buying expensive apple devices. We are not cheap-shits, and people around us will know it.

        /s

  • http://twitter.com/HABOTN HABOTN

    I really like Android, but this number seems misleading.

    We’re talking about 3.5 million activations each week? How many of those activations are Android people activating updated Android equipment?

    I read these to mean: WE’RE TAKING OVER THE WORLD.

    Which, clearly, is inaccurate. It’s a big world littered with smart people … and dumb people.

  • Anonymous

    Man how many poor people are there in the world for them to all be activating these piss-poor android devices every day.

  • Anonymous

    Same stuff, different day.  Android keeps growing, apple fans stick to their guns that Apple makes more money…LOL  
    Ok…

    • http://twitter.com/cdoruff Collin Doruff

      Who cares about how much money one company makes to a consumer that wants a product? id rather pay less for a good phone.

  • Jtkrpm

    Android also has the highest return rates don’t they? So how many of those activations were returned?

    • http://twitter.com/trick202 Rich Fletcher

      Do they? Link?

  • Anonymous

    The apple fanboys will wet themselves panicing over this one lol….

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_Z4ZPFYUCXMJKI6KIE3EBVZJWTQ Merle Torres

    I paid $32.67 for a XBOX 360 and my mom got a 17 inch Toshiba laptop for $94.83 being delivered to our house tomorrow by FedEX. I will never again pay expensive retail prices at stores. I even sold a 46 inch HDTV to my boss for $650 and it only cost me $52.78 to get. Here is the website we using to get all this stuff, LiveCent.com

  • Anonymous

    And now lets watch the iPhonies talk in circular arguments while they try to rationalize how this means Google is doomed and how they think this really means iPhone is on top…all while secretly wetting themselves.

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