Android keeps growing (a couple stats)
Heard a bit lately about how much Android is growing lately. During the Galaxy Nexus announcement they mentioned that the Android activations had doubled to 200 MILLION in just 6 months!
That’s crazy!
And then just the other day I read a Nielsen report that Android is now making up 42% of all app downloads.
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/smartphone-app-marketshare1.png
This is great news as much of the ‘opponents’ say that “sure they’re activating, but they’re not contributing economically”. True, it doesn’t say how much of that 42% of app downloads are ‘free’, but you gotta assume a fair bit are paying. There’s money to be made in developing for Android. And look how that market share has just increased and increased.
And our reader, Renaud, shared a post the other day from another report that Android continues to ‘boom’.
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2024/12/comscore2.png
Wow, just soaring! Sad to see our Canadian company lose so much ground, but it’s inevitable if you can’t keep up.