How well is Google’s Android OS holding up in the smartphone battles? According to recent numbers from research group NPD, the operating system topped the iPhone in sales for the first quarter of the year, coming in second only to BlackBerry in the US.
If you need some more concrete numbers, how about this one: According to Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, more than 65,000 Android handsets are shipped every day. Schmidt revealed the number during a shareholder meeting in Mountain View yesterday. “It looks like Android is going to be either the number one or number two player,” the executive told the crowd.
Schmidt also suggested that his estimate “might be quite low,” according to “the blogosphere.” At present, there are 34 different smartphones running the OS in 49 countries.
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