Andy Rubin, SVP of Mobile at Google, this week announced via Google+ that the company is now seeing some 700,000 Android phone activations a day. In a second post, Rubin said that: “Activations means you go into a store, buy a device, put it on the network by subscribing to a wireless service.” He also added that “We count each device only once.”
Android has been on a tear this year. It announced in April that it was activating 350,000 devices a day. Only a month ago, it revised that number to 550,000 per day. It also announced that some 200 million Android devices have now been activated worldwide and I suspect that it will not be too long before Google tops the 250 million mark given that, at the current rate, it is adding almost 5 million devices a week.
Will 2012 be the year that Android surpasses iOS in terms of total number of devices activated? It looks like a safe prediction right now…