Android
At least 65,000 mobile phones powered by Google’s Android operating system are being shipped every day, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said Thursday.
Speaking at Google’s annual shareholder meeting at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, Schmidt said the open-source Android system is now being used on 34 mobile devices in 49 countries.
“It looks like Android is going to be either the number one or number two player” in the mobile phone market, he said at the meeting which was streamed live on Google-owned YouTube.
“Our partners are shipping about 65,000 Android handsets per day but if you check the blogosphere you’ll discover there are some reports that that number might be quite low,” Schmidt said.
Google co-founder Larry Page, who also attended the meeting, said the strategy of getting more devices running Android provides benefits “through more (Google) searches and other things that we do.
“I think you’ll see that as those products mature we’ll figure out how to make more money from them,” Page said.
[via AFP]
