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Google now activates 500,000 Android devices every day
- nextparadigms 15y agoI think there are at least 1 billion phones sold per year from all the companies right now. That means that 5 years from now when Android phones could be sold at under $50, and with a market share of ~50%, there could be at least 1.5 mil Android phones activated per day, or 500-600 mil per year. So the potential for growth is 3x bigger than today. The only requirement for this to happen is for Android to reach and maintain 45-50% market share, and it looks like it will. Also several research companies have stated that Android will have around 45% market share in 2015, even if WP7 gets to have 20% market share as well (and I still have a hard time figuring how that would happen, but anyways). EDIT: 1.4 billion mobile phones sold in 2010.