According to data released by Google recently, Android is currently present on over half a billion devices and is growing with more 1.3 million devices a day.
Gartner predicts with this rate, Android will reach 608 million devices by 2012-end.
Reuters adds:
Android, which reached the market only in 2008, has risen fast to be the dominant smartphone platform, controlling two-thirds of that market. It has taken the No. 2 spot in the fast-growing tablet computer market. The proliferation of the free software gives Google its edge on the search market – its key profit generator.
Worldwide shipments of personal computers fell by over 8 percent in the third quarter, the steepest decline since 2001, as more consumers flock to increasingly powerful tablets and smartphones for more basic computing.
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