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GOOGLE: We Have 1 Billion Monthly Active Android Users

GOOGLE: We Have 1 Billion Monthly Active Android Users
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At Google's I/O conference, Sundar Pichai, the leader of the Android team, revealed quite a few interesting numbers about the state of Android.

It now has 1 billion monthly active users. That makes it almost as big as Facebook, as far as platforms go.

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He also said that users are checking their phones 100 billion times a day. On a per-person basis, people are checking their phones 125 times a day.

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He also said that people are taking 93 million selfies per day.

selfies per day on Android

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He also addressed the idea that people don't use Android tablets. He says Android tablet market share is now at 62%.

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But, market share isn't the same as usage. So, Pichai said that 42% of tablet video views on YouTube now come from Android. He thinks that video views can act as a good proxy for actual usage.

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