Android has 1.4 billion active users – Android World

In late May showed Google us at Google I / O that as many as one billion active Android users. When they have made a conservative estimate that this number at the end of the year would be increased to 1.2 billion, but now appear to have been 1.4 million active Android users.

Conservative estimates

Google calculates the number of active users, based on the number of users that the Google Play Store has to his equipment and within 30 days at any one time has an Internet connection and a kind of sign of life in the Google Play Store displays. In addition to these official Google Android devices, there are still many Android devices in circulation that do not have Google Play Store, such as the Amazon Fire Phone and many appliances in China.

According to Google’s Android One contributed to the enormous growth of Android. Many of the new Android users are people who for the first time have access to a smartphone and even the internet as a whole. In addition mention Google CEO Sundar Pichai in his speech for a moment that the first Android One unit of the Turkish General Mobile since coming out as the best sold in the home country.

Android for Work seems from the ground the come. Meanwhile, according to Pichai more than 10,000 US companies or started working on Android for Work. These include among others the US Army and the World Bank.

Chromecast sells very well

The original Chromecast in May was already passed 17 million copies sold and there are now 20 million copies of the HDMI dongle sold. Now, two new variants of the device on the market, a revamped Chromecast and an audio version, good sales will probably still be just continue. According to Google, there are now more than 200,000 apps available that use the Cast function.

In the future, the number expanded available apps are with more audio-only apps, especially for Chromecast Audio.

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