Lot's of good stats. Do we know how this compares to apple? That would be interesting to see how the .07 mil growth compares to apple.
Well, the last numbers we know cite 47.8 mio iPhones, 22.9 iPads and usually iPod Touch are half of the iPod sales (probably more in the holiday quarter, but lets use the lower number), a bit more than 6 million, for a combined number of 124 mio iOS devices sold in the 91 days of the last quarter.
Thats 1.36 mio devices sold per day.
But those numbers are from a holiday quarter and January to March should have been lower.
Just taking the numbers from LAST YEARS January - March quarter (actually, two thirds of it, because March is not yet over and calculating "daily" numbers would be too crazy to do^^), Apple should have sold 23.3 mio iPhones in the timeframe from the end of their last released quarterly results until March 1, 7.8 mio iPads (but remember, last years numbers contained the release of a new iPad BUT - iPad numbers are also increasing every year by a large margin) and close to 4 million iPod Touch, for 35 mio new iOS devices sold since the period mentioned in the last quarterly results. Remember, these are LAST YEARS NUMBERS!!!
So while Android activated more than 250 mio devices (but probably less than 290), Apple sold at least 159 mio devices in that timeframe (actually a bit more, because the devices Apple sold from September 12th to the begin of their holiday quarter are not considered, including the 5 million iPhone 5 and probably some of the older devices.
Lets just say Apple sold at least 165 million iOS devices in the same timeframe that Android activated 250-290 mio devices.
That would be 970k sold iOS devices per day (September 12th 2012 to March 1st)
If you consider that the cheapest of these iOS devices costs 199$ (iPod Touch - which is also the device with the fewest sales) and the ASP of the iPhone is usually higher than the base model of the newest generation (in this case the iPhone 5), while probably a large number of Android devices are in the 100-300$ (WITHOUT contract) range, you can see how Apple is having a quite profitable business in iOS^^
Android has the most to lose in growth because they are already pretty much maxed. They have the low end market and if people want the mid/high they are probably already using one.
Plus their #s and activations were always suspect. Android covers so many models...even the ancient versions they still have on the lowest end models count as 'Android activation'...
If they activated 250 mio new devices: 1.37 mio devices per day
If they activated 260 mio new devices: 1.42 mio devices per day
If they activated 270 mio new devices: 1.48 mio devices per day
If they activated 280 mio new devices: 1.53 mio devices per day
If they activated 290 mio new devices: 1.58 mio devices per day - but in that case, Rubin would have said "We have activated close to 800 mio Android devices worldwide.
