Not to be out done by Apple’s announcement today, Google has announced their mobile based devices have been activated 500 million times worldwide according to Hugo Barra, the director of Product management for Android.
In addition, the Jelly Bean statue located on Google’s campus that was damaged in the summer heat has now been repaired. The old statue used a transparent plastic for the head, which melted and popped off in the California sun. True to its word, Google has now fixed the bug, swapping out the dome for the Android mascot’s more familiar head.
Back in February, Andy Rubin revealed that 300 million Android devices had been activated with a daily rate of 850,000. Then, at this year’s I/O conference, Google announced that 400 million devices had been activated, with one million new Androiddevices coming online per day. In comparison, 410 million iOS devices have been sold as of July.
[theverge]
