Announced
today at Android I/O, the official daily activations for Android powered
devices have topped one million. Not that it was going to be a surprise as the
numbers last quarter showed that the milestone would certainly have been
reached even before that period ended as we pointed out in a previous analysis.
Now that
the figures have been made public, we can measure how Android’s phone platform
is doing compared to its arch rival, Apple’s iPhone. For those who haven’t been
paying attention, Apple’s first 2012 calendar quarter saw a drop in iPhone
sales from a high of 37.1 million in the final quarter of 2011 to 35.1 million.
Although
the second quarter has yet to complete, Apple’s own guidance for the three
months ending June 30 was for a further sequential drop in iPhone sales and
many Wall Street analysts are expecting a number of 30 million (although some
are suggesting that it could be as low as 27.5 million).
