If you count the iPad and iPod touch, it looks like iOS by about 1.6 million units
Estimates based on Flurry Analytics and Google tweets
Without a press release from Apple (AAPL) crowing about their Christmas sales, we're forced to rely on data from a mobile analytics firm and tweets from a Google (GOOG) senior vice president to make some rough guesses.
Here's what we know:
But this is just guesswork, and it doesn't take into account sales of Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle Fire, which wouldn't show up in Google's accounting of Android activations. We'll get hard numbers in January when Apple reports its earnings for its first fiscal quarter of 2012, which ends Saturday.
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"You don't want to build it generically and then throw it over the fence." -- Google Mobile Chief Andy Rubin on Android (All Things D)
* An indepth look at Android 4.0, a.k.a. Ice Cream Sandwich, courtesy of This is my next. Among the numerous tweaks, expect a new clean, futuristic look MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Oct 19, 2011 10:34 AM ET
Android is in deep trouble on the patent front, and its top lawyer knows it
Source: Google
Google's (GOOG) chief legal counsel's angry screed on the company's official blog in which he accuses Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT) of waging a hostile, organized, anti-competitive campaign against Android through dubious and bogus patents (adjectives all his) may be remembered as one of the most misguided briefs any high-tech lawyer has ever written.
Not MORE
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A note to readers: Apologies for the lack of updates over the last week -- yours truly was making preparations for a move out West. Effective end of June, I'll report from Fortune's San Francisco offices to better bring readers the latest tech scoops as they break. Thanks MORE
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* This one's a whopper... The Daily Beast discovered that Facebook hired public relations firm Burson-Marsteller to pitch anti-Google stories to publications. A Facebook spokesperson confirmed as much to the Web site last night, citing concerns with Google's social networking activities that raise privacy concerns and issues with MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - May 12, 2011 10:23 AM ET
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If you're a Facebook user and a gamer, there's no need to venture to Gamestop.com or a brick and mortar location anymore. The videogame retail chain opened shop on Facebook with a market powered by Adgregate Markets. Potential buyers will be able to purchase games, read product MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Apr 7, 2011 10:22 AM ET
The cell company is rebooting Sidekick phones on Google's Android OS, leaving Microsoft's $500 million purchase of Danger looking wasted.
A circa 2007 Sidekick
If you needed more proof that Microsoft's $500 million acquisition of mobile software maker Danger was a flop, here it is: T-Mobile just announced that service to its once-popular Sidekick devices, powered by Danger, will be discontinued on May 31.
What does that mean? For Sidekick users, it MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Mar 1, 2011 11:07 AM ET
Here's a great little video which shows the phenomenal rate of increase in Android activations.
At last count, Google (GOOG) was activating 300,000 devices per day. It is hard to imagine Android has grown in just about two and a half years. This video, put out by the official Android developers YouTube account, certainly helps.
Some music would have been nice.
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Today, the FCC votes on Internet regulations that would mandate that companies treat all kind of Web content equally -- though as they are now, the rules would not apply to wireless data. Venture capitalist and former California State Controller Steve Westly explained why the net neutrality proposal announced by MORE
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