Android, a platform which didn’t exist just 25 months ago, is now the most-used operating system on smartphones in the United States, having just surpassed BlackBerry.
According to a study released today by comScore, 31.2%, of U.S. smartphones were running Google’s Android OS in January, compared to the 30.4% of American smartphone owners who use BlackBerry devices. Android overtook Apple’s iOS, which runs on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad last November.
According to Google, 350,000 Android devices are activated each day. In fact, Android is growing 30 times faster than the US population. See this amazing video on Android’s rapid growth in Q1 of this year.
I searched back… blogs have been saying this for 6 months now…. so what gives? How much longer can you milk click bait like this.
Everyone knows Google wants quantity over quality and Apple is going for quality… so both win. End of story.
@The Gnome I agree with you about Apple and Google, but I don’t think this is click bait. This wasn’t the only place this news was reported. It was reported on several other bigger tech sites as well.
@The Gnome I was surprised as well… I guess it depends on how much you believe comScore. They are unfortunately an industry go to for measurement. I’d be thrilled (and open ears) to a variety of other sources to depend on for the same information.
@The Gnome I was surprised as well… I guess it depends on how much you believe comScore. They are unfortunately an industry go to for measurement. I’d be thrilled (and open ears) to having a variety of other sources to depend on for the same information.
I guess the question is how could Android NOT be number one? It is like thinking of a world where Windows isn’t number 1 in the PC market. Google has 150+ SKUs with its OS on it, Apple has 1 iPhone and 1 iPad. Plus the Android options are cheaper, and that is what people (stupidly) look at when buying a phone. Even though the most of the cost is in the 2 year commitment.