Google released a rebranded Android Market yesterday, now named ‘Google Play’, dropping the Android specific name. Same content is still available: apps, music, movies & books. To celebrate the fact there’s bargains on apps and music all this week too.
850k Android activations A DAY
This is incredible news from Google this week at the Mobile World Congress conference. Every day there are now 850 thousand Android device activations.
That’s right, you read that correctly. 850k A DAY. That’s incredible!
The daily number of activations are still increasing since 700k a day in December 2011, and 550k in November 2011.
Apple to ship 30.3 million iPhones this quarter… but only half the expected volume of Android devices
According to investor estimates Apple are expected to ship 30 million iPhones this quarter. That sounds impressive, but to put this in perspective in relation to Android device activations, the current numbers from Google say as of mid December, they’re seeing 700,000 new Android device activations A DAY.
That means in a quarter, there’s more than 63 million new Android devices activated. Now that’s impressive.
Google’s Music Store announcement today
Google will be having a press conference today at 2pm PST to announce something related to an online music store. cnet will be live blogging the announcement here, and live streaming will be here.
There’s been some speculation which of the major labels are on board, ranging from only one to all but one. Have to see how it pans out this afternoon. It’s obviously going to be linked in with their existing music.google.com service which allows you to store all your music online and stream to your desktop or Android device, but have to see if there’s any more interesting features that haven’t been announced yet.
The most interesting rumor is that the major labels have agreed to let users of Google’s service share music between their friends, which would tie music in with Google+?