On 20th December, Andy Rubin one of the Founder of Google Inc. and currently Senior Vice President of Mobile at Google announced on Google+ that more than 700,000 Android devices are being getting activated daily. That makes to 29,166 devices activated every hour, or 486 devices every minute, or by the time you finish reading this post. Or to be more exact, 8 devices per second.
Rubin also explained how the term “Activation” counts to:
"We count each device only once (i.e. we don't count re-sold devices), and "activations" means you go into a store, buy a device, put it on the network by subscribing to a wireless service."
Android and iOS measures their growth according number of devices Activations. This is a fine way to know that if someone actually using the devices. It is obvious that, mobile phone devices that are laying on the store shelves would not be counted.
It looks like Google is on the path with the amplified count of handsets in the Android network. But what can't see from the illustration graph, is the share of Android tablets being released. Google does not split the activation numbers into tablet or smartphone sections. But we expect that the tablet sale has increased during the last two years. If that is the case, the number of new Android smartphone activations does not climb like it used to.
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