The Android Stats From The Google Earnings Call

Google announced Q2 revenues earlier this afternoon. In his prepared remarks CEO Larry Page threw out a bunch of stats about Android. Below are the major numbers he reported: 900M Android devices activations globally 1.5 million activations daily Over 50 billion apps downloaded from Google Play More money paid to developers in 2013 so far […]

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android logoGoogle announced Q2 revenues earlier this afternoon. In his prepared remarks CEO Larry Page threw out a bunch of stats about Android. Below are the major numbers he reported:

  • 900M Android devices activations globally
  • 1.5 million activations daily
  • Over 50 billion apps downloaded from Google Play
  • More money paid to developers in 2013 so far than in the whole of 2012

Android is already world’s dominant operating system according to multiple sources. The chart below is from Gartner:

Gartner operating system share forecast

The following data are from StatCounter and reflect global traffic share by mobile operating system:

Statcounter traffic share


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Greg Sterling
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Greg Sterling is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land, a member of the programming team for SMX events and the VP, Market Insights at Uberall.

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