Android: 300,000 Activations a Day

*no fruit was harmed in the picture (unless you count Apple).

That’s right folks, Andy Rubin has tweeted his second tweet.  Our “Early Adopter Platform” has been growing like gangbusters.  We all knew that Android was growing but this is pretty phenomenal growth.  I’ve been trying to wrap my brain around the numbers.  That means that there are 2.1 million activations a week.  That’s amazing.  As you can see below, over the course of the last 8 quarters Android has shipped a disproportionately large number of units compared to our unfriendly fruit competition.

If you do the math, 300,000 activations a day equals 2.1 million a week and +/- 9 million a month.  If we keep this growth rate up, well, Apple might become the minority once again.  I know that the number of iPhones versus Android handsets I see when I go out has heavily skewed in our favor.  As far as I am concerned that is much more real than analysts telling me.  Next time you go out in public, look around.  It is more and more frequently becoming a 3-1 or even 4-1 advantage in terms of Android over iOS devices (at least for me).

source: BusinessWire and thedroidguy (via) Strategy Analytics