Google I/O: Day One by the numbers

Google I/O 2012 logoGoogle I/O got off to an eventful start thanks to keynote delays, the pre-release of news on Google’s websites before it was announced on stage and an epic skydiving stunt. Here is a quick run-down of day one by the numbers:

  • 400 million active Android devices worldwide. Around this time last year, there were 100 million active Android devices.
  • Google is activating 1 million Android devices daily.
  • A million NFC-enabled devices are being activated every week.
  • South Korea and Japan saw 200 percent year over year growth in activations of Android devices.
  • India, Thailand and Brazil saw 400 percent increase in activations on a year-over-year basis.
  • There are 600,000 Android apps.
  • There have been 20 billion app installs to date.
  • Two-third of Play revenue comes from outside of the US.
  • Google has more than 4 million books in the Play store.
  • YouTube has 800 million monthly users.
  • There are 350 million mobile devices with YouTube installed on them.
  • Twitter users share 700 YouTube videos every minute.

And now for the Google+ numbers.

  • 250 million accounts.
  • 150 million monthly active Google+ users.
  • 75 million daily active users.
  • Apparently daily actives spend more than 12 minutes per day.

Here’s our recap of Day One as it unfolded.

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