Once again playing coy with a major company announcement, Google engineering vice president and Android development director Andy Rubin tweeted Thursday that more than 300,000 Android phones are activated daily. It was only Rubin’s second tweet, and followed his sneak-a-peek presentation of Android’s new Honeycomb tablet computer at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference. “It either means that Android is the winner this holiday season, or that the mobile operating system market is growing faster than previously estimated,” said Tomi Rauste, president of Movial creative technologies.
Instead, Jude surmises the figure "may represent the number of phones being shipped from manufacturers, many of which end up in warehouses rather than in people's pockets."
And then what happens to them?
Are we to assume that in a decade or so the world be covered with Google warehouses whilst we talk into out iphone 94s?
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Is Rubin's 300,000-Androids-a-Day Tweet on Target?
Posted by: Mike Martin December 10, 2010 05:00 AMOnce again playing coy with a major company announcement, Google engineering vice president and Android development director Andy Rubin tweeted Thursday that more than 300,000 Android phones are activated daily. It was only Rubin’s second tweet, and followed his sneak-a-peek presentation of Android’s new Honeycomb tablet computer at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference. “It either means that Android is the winner this holiday season, or that the mobile operating system market is growing faster than previously estimated,” said Tomi Rauste, president of Movial creative technologies.
And then what happens to them?
Are we to assume that in a decade or so the world be covered with Google warehouses whilst we talk into out iphone 94s?