Google: 500,000 Android devices activated each day (deepakor.blogspot.com)

Google Android chief Andy
Rubin tweeted today that
"over 500,000 Android
devices" are now activated
each day around the world.
Moreover, he said that
activations are growing at a
rate of 4.4 percent week-over-
week.
That figure becomes more
significant when one
considers that just last month
at Google's I/O Conference, the
company announced that
400,000 Android devices were
being activated each day, up
from 300,000 daily activations
in December and 100,000
activations per day a year ago.
In 2008, 400,000 to 500,000
units of the first Android
smartphone, the T-Mobile G1,
were expected to sell in the
entire fourth quarter.
As Android's popularity has
soared, so too has its market
share. According to a report
released by ComScore earlier
this month, Android secured
36.4 percent of the U.S.
smartphone market during
the first quarter of 2011,
easily besting Apple's iOS
platform, which controlled 26
percent of the market.
Research In Motion and
Microsoft followed with 25.7
percent and 6.7 percent of the
market, respectively.
On a global scale, market
researcher Gartner sees good
times ahead for Android
handsets. The research firm
said in April that it expects
more than 630 million
smartphones to hit store
shelves in 2012 and that
Android will be running on
49.2 percent of them. Apple's
iOS will come in second with
18.9 percent market share,
Gartner predicts.