{"id":22081,"date":"2014-06-26T10:45:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T08:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=22081"},"modified":"2014-06-26T10:45:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T08:45:19","slug":"android-now-has-1-billion-active-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/26\/android-now-has-1-billion-active-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Android now has 1 billion active users"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Google is releasing some stats at their Google I\/O event. \u00a0According to <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/google\/2014\/06\/25\/google-activations-io-2014\/\">The Next Web<\/a>, they&#8217;ve now switched from device activation counters to 30-day user activity metric. \u00a0Here&#8217;s how the growth over the last few years looks like:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/android-active-users.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"22082\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/26\/android-now-has-1-billion-active-users\/android-active-users\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/android-active-users.jpg?fit=730%2C486&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"730,486\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"android active users\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/android-active-users.jpg?fit=660%2C439&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-22082\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/android-active-users-500x332.jpg?resize=500%2C332&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"android active users\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/android-active-users.jpg?resize=500%2C332&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/android-active-users.jpg?w=730&amp;ssl=1 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a lot in my book. \u00a0With about 7 billion people living in the world, that&#8217;s 1 in every 7 people on the planet uses an Android device.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1 billion <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Android?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Android<\/a> devices out in the world. That\u2019s something like 93 million selfies taken every day &#8230; give or take <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/io14?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#io14<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Google (@Google) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Google\/status\/481832791269597184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 25, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Google is releasing some stats at their Google I\/O event. \u00a0According to The Next Web, they&#8217;ve now switched from device activation counters to 30-day user activity metric. \u00a0Here&#8217;s how the growth over the last few years looks like: That&#8217;s a lot in my book. \u00a0With about 7 billion people living in the world, that&#8217;s 1 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/26\/android-now-has-1-billion-active-users\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Android now has 1 billion active users<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[2400,1141,1041],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-22081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-google-android","tag-mobile","tag-statistics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Google is releasing some stats at their Google I\/O event. 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