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While many examined the financials in Google’s(s goog) most recently quarterly results on Thursday, the Android activation figures are also worth a look. Android adoption has enjoyed stellar growth for some time, having surpassed Apple’s(s aapl) iPhone, and it is still growing. The growth rate, however, is now completely flat based on the numbers Google provided on Thursday and compared to prior figures earlier this year. What’s up?
A little history of big growth
First, let’s take a look back to see how Android has grown through 2012:
- In May of 2010, the year Android really got moving thanks to version 2.1 of the software, Google said it was activating 100,000 Android devices each day.
- Andy Rubin, then head of Google’s Android group tweeted in December of 2010 that the figure had tripled: 300,000 Androids were being activated daily.
- April of the following year: Google says…
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