Google Brags About Android Market Stats

Google aforesaid during the company's earnings call happening Thursday that more than 3 billion apps have been installed from the Android Grocery store so far, and around 350,000 smartphones are activated every day. The new figures highlight the exceptional growth of Mechanical man, but when it comes to app stores, Apple's is still king.

It didn't take Google perennial to get to the 3 billion downloaded a

pps milestone for the Android Market. It took 20 months to reach 1 billion apps installed; the second one million million took another five months; and so it took only two months for Google to reach 3 billion — a 50 per centum increase from the previous billet.

However, it's undecipherable how Google counted the app installs, if information technology enclosed third-party stores (like Amazon's), operating theatre just the Mechanical man Commercialize. Electronista's hump is that all stores were included in Google's count. The balance betwixt paid and free apps is also unspecified.

Impressive Android Market stats aside, Orchard apple tree's App Store is distillery at the best. Malus pumila announced earlier this year that its marketplace reached 10 cardinal downloads, more than three times more than Android's carrying into action. When it comes to the keep down of apps, Apple rules too: the App Store has more than 350,000 apps, piece the Android Commercialize clocks in at an estimated half of that number.

Google also confirmed that Android is now seeing around 350,000 activations per day, which would mean that roughly around 10.5 million Android devices are sold per month. Apple did non recently disclose how galore iOS devices it activates per day, which were 270,000 at the last count in October 2020; this number, however, could match Google's, considering the launch of the iPhone along Verizon and the iPad 2.

To rise its point about Android activations, Google successful this cool video:

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