200 Million Android Devices Activated; 550,000 Every Day

[bak0n]

I have both an apple and an android device; The apple came first; I will never buy another apple.

 

[bender3000]

because while there's only one iOS phone, there's countless Android devices. However, despite Android's advantage of multiple devices.....

Choice. Which is why I will never devolve into an iSheep.

 

[STravis]

[citation][nom]bender3000[/nom]Choice. Which is why I will never devolve into an iSheep.[/citation]

Choice - something that Android users crow about, unless you chose not to use Android; then they get all tied up in knots.

 

[STravis]

[citation][nom]belardo[/nom]Xyriin: apple only sells 2 kinds of iPhones, 1 kind of iPad and a few iPods. Vs about 30 android phones and 15 good android tablets. Apple makes more money because of its Eco system than any google partnership.I'm not very impressed with android or Samsung when it comes to support and usability of their products. And for a novice computer user, it's even worse. I get music or photos onto or off my galaxy phone okay... I manually drag and drop. iTunes makes it very easy for avg users.I won't ever see ICS on my galaxy... Gee thanks google.[/citation]

So why was this thumbed down? Talk about attacking the messenger.

 

[zodiacfml]

i haven't had a smartphone since nokia 6600 and i'm a gadget guy. yes, there's still a lot lot of people that don't have smartphone yet.

 

[watcha]

[citation][nom]reader123[/nom]The last paragraph is deceiving and just flat out wrong. There are more than just iPhones when it comes to iOS devices... There are not 250 million iPhones activated, there are 250 million iOS devices.http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/04 [...] ices-sold/ There may be only 1 top of the line iOS phone, but you can still buy the iPhone4 or and sometimes on sales the iPhone3GS + there are iPads and iTouches. It isn't just all iPhones. Android long since surpassed Apple in smartphone numbers.[/citation]

It's not wrong at all, and it's not deceiving either.

There may be multiple iterations of the iphone device, but each Android device has iterations too, and there are far more of them, so it's very much accurate. Android activations are not all on phone either, so it's an entirely fair comparison. For example, Android tablets, of which there are far more than there are iPads.

Finally, Android is NOT ahead in smartphone activations, that is 'flat out wrong'. See here:

http://www.mediabistro.com/ebooknewser/apple-dominates-smartphonetablet-activations-in-q3-good-technology_b16929

 

[watcha]

[citation][nom]xyriin[/nom]250 iOS devices does not mean iPhones. It means iPhones, iPods, iPads, and Apple TVs combined. So yes, Android is competing against more than one device. But it won't matter, in another year or so those Android activations will be greater than iOS devices so we won't see Apple tossing out anymore slides with their device numbers.[/citation]

Android is spread over multiple devices too, so it's an entirely fair comparison.

 

[watcha]

[citation][nom]bender3000[/nom]Choice. Which is why I will never devolve into an iSheep.[/citation]

Fragmentation, which is why hardware which should be faster runs far slower.