Andy Rubin: Google activates 300,000 phones every day

Wow, that's almost 110 million devices per year!

That is a lot of phones. What does it actually mean though? Android is fast becomming the lowest common denominator for a phone OS?

Does this imply that they are all new phones? By activating, I guess they mean adding gmail to those phones (Android source can be downloaded for free, so that can't be it), but I have two gmail accounts on this one alone.

Comparing to Apple's 14.1 iPhones million statistic (from the last quarter), it's about twice what Apple last announced.<p>Math: 14.1 million / (1/4 * 365) days ~= 150,000 phones

This articles says that Google is "selling Android..." - does this imply there's direct profit for Google from each one of these activations?

number can't be right -- otherwise there'd be more phones activated than phones manufactured.

With numbers like that, it is hard to fault Gmail for having a few hiccups lately.