Tag: andy rubin

Andy Rubin leaves Google

I’ll lay money on the fact that a lot of you know who Andy Rubin is, even if you’re not quite sure why. He’s one of the people responsible for creating Android and was the former CEO at Danger. He left the Android division in March last year …

Head of Android moving on to new things

Andy Rubin who is/was head of Android at Google has moved on to new things within the company it has been announced today much to the surprise of many. Rubin has been a major part of getting Android to where it is today but it seems there are some exciting …

Nearly a million Android devices activated.. daily

Google big-wig Andy Rubin doesn’t tweet much, but when he does we’re all shouting about it. He has no plans to leave the big “G” and claims that 900,000 Android devices are now activated every single day. Oooo.. wouldn’t you like to have growth like that eh? Now, …

Patent Application Hints at New Nexus?

No sooner has the rumour mill died down around the Samsung Galaxy SIII than the merry-go-round starts all over again, this time the handset in question is the next Google Nexus. In a patent application filed by one Andy Rubin, Google’s VP of Engineering, it would appear that …

Android and iOS Activations go through the roof at Christmas

Got an Android handset for Christmas ? You could be one of the 3.7 million people who activated their device on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. A staggering amount considering that there’s 700,000 per day during “normal weeks”. Andy Rubin has jumped onto Twitter to announced the stats …

The Android growth continues – 700k activations per day

 At the end of June we told how 500,000 Android devices were getting activated every day. It was 200,000 more than the figure released 6 months earlier. Now, another 6 months on, there’s another increase of 200,000. If this rate continues, we should see around a million …

500k Android Activations Daily!

Andy Rubin from Google has just come on Twitter and posted the news that the Android OS has now hit 500,000 activations a day!.  A massive milestone for the OS helped by some great hardware from major manufactures and great progress with the Android OS itself Considering we are …