"There are now over 500,000 Android devices activated every day, and it`s growing at 4.4 percent w/w," tweeted Rubin, Google`s Senior Vice President of Mobile who oversees the development of Android, the open-source operating system for smartphones.
Last month, Google said at its annual developer conference Google I/O that 400,000 Android devices were being activated each day, compared with 300,000 daily activations in December and 100, 000 in May 2010.
More research data have shown Android system`s soaring market share and popularity. Earlier this month, Internet market research company ComScore reported that Android remained the No. 1 smartphone operating system in the United States over the three months ending in April. The system captured 36.4 percent of U.S. smartphone subscribers, while Apple`s iOS system for iPhone had 26 percent of all smartphone users.
In April, market research company Gartner said in a forecast that the Android operating system will own 49.2 percent of the global smartphone market and Apple`s iOS will have an 18.9-percent share in the second place. (*)
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