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Android activations visualized

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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Andy Rubin: Google activates 300,000 phones every day

Google may now be the biggest smartphone vendor on earth.

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Has Android's growth slowed down?

After a stratospheric rise this summer, Google has been stuck at around 200,000 activations a day since early August.

Update: (Dec. 8th) Well, it looks like Google's numbers aren't flat. They just waited a little while to report them.

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Android Chief Andy Rubin tweets back at Steve Jobs 'openness' claims

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Andy Rubin on Windows Phone 7: 'The world doesn't need another platform'

The head of Google's Android doesn't understand why the world would want a Windows 7 phone.

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PCMag: On Monday, Microsoft is announcing their first Windows Phone 7 phones. What do you think of that platform as a competitor?

Rubin: I think the screen shots I've seen are interesting, but look, the world doesn't need another platform. Android is free and open; I think the only reason you create another MORE