Google: 65,000+ Android Phones Ship Every Day
Google: 65,000+ Android Phones Ship Every Day
Posted 05/14/2010 at 12:10pm
| by Paul Lilly
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If you don't already own an Android-powered smartphone, there's a good chance you will the next time you upgrade. It's just a numbers game, and according to Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, there are least 65,000 mobile phones running Android being shipped each and every day.
"Our partners are shipping about 65,000 Android handsets per day but if you check the blogosphere you'll discover there are some reports that that number might be quite low," Schmidt said.
If Schmidt's numbers are correct, that would mean there are more than two million Android handsets shipping out every month, putting it almost on par with the 8.75 million iPhones Apple said it shipped last quarter.
"Our strategy is very different from everybody else's," Schimdt added. "We license our code for free, so that's really pretty revolutionary. We're trying to build an entire ecosystem of openness, the inverse of the other guys."
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robnelsen
May 14, 2010 at 2:49pm
"This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."
PawBear
May 14, 2010 at 12:35pm
Can anyone tell me? Google tracks everything. Their browser tracked me, their searches track me, their ads track me, their OS will probably track me. Are their phones tracking me too?
*** "Either we conform the Truth to our desires or we conform our desires to the Truth." ***
misha573
May 14, 2010 at 12:58pm
Don't sweat it. You're being tracked. Aluminium caps won't help you. Embrace the reality, the inevitability, the certainty. Whether active or passive, opt in or opt out...sooner or later we'll all be tracked.
Then, personalised adverts as we walk along the street, enter stores, listen to the radio, watch the tele, go about our daily business...
Your only hope? Deep forest with the bears for neighbours!!
JK. (I hope).
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