Google (NSDQ: GOOG) feels it’s not getting credit for how strong sales of Android-powered phones are, so CEO Eric Schmidt is going on the offensive, telling shareholders that the company’s partners are shipping at least 65,000 handsets with the Google open-source operating system every day, according to AFP. Schmidt’s comments follow market researcher NPD’s report that the dozen or so Android-based smartphones have out-sold Apple
Google Says It’s Shipping 65,000 Android Phones Daily
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) feels it’s not getting credit for how strong sales of Android-powered phones are, so CEO Eric Schmidt is going on the of…
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Mr. Eric Schmidt (Shipping is different from Selling)
If the manufacturing unit (HTC) ships 65,000 a day doesnt mean
65,000 people buying Androids.
We understand we are not as smart as people at Google but we are not dumb either.
no one wants to develop for a fractured market spread across different OS versions
if you were a developer would you spend time coding for
3,000 Sony Ericsson devices running Android OS 2
or
3,000,000 iPhone devices