[id-android] WTI: Google disputes Apple's indirect claims about Android activations

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Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs suggested Wednesday that reported
Android activations from Google are falsely inflated because they
include upgrades -- an insinuation that the search giant quickly
disputed.

Kicking off his keynote Wednesday, Jobs said that more than 120
million iOS devices have shipped since the iPhone first launched in
2007. Then, in a thinly veiled attack against Google's Android mobile
operating system, he revealed how many iOS devices are activated
daily.

"People are throwing around a lot of numbers as to how many of their
operating systems they're activating per day," Jobs told the crowd.
"We are activating a little over 230,000 iOS devices per day. And
that's new activations."

He continued: "We think that some of our friends are counting upgrades
in their numbers. If we counted upgrades in our numbers, they'd be way
higher than 230,000. But we think the most appropriate way to count
them is just new activations."

Those "friends," of course, are officials at Google, who recently
claimed that more than 200,000 Android devices were being activated
every day.

But a spokesperson for Google disputed Jobs' claims. In a statement
given to Fortune, the company suggested that Jobs' comments were
inaccurate.

"The Android activations numbers do not include upgrades and are, in
fact, only a portion of the Android devices in the market, since we
only include devices that have Google services," the spokesperson
said.

Earlier this year, it was alleged that Jobs feels betrayed by Google,
a company that Apple was close partners with until it began producing
phones that resemble the iPhone. The New York Times alleged that Jobs
felt Google "violated the alliance" between the two companies.

At Wednesday's keynote, Jobs also revealed that more than 6.5 billion
applications have been downloaded from the App Store on the iPhone,
iPod touch and iPad. That's 200 applications every second.

There are currently more than 250,000 applications available on the
App Store, Jobs also said. Of those, 25,000 are available for the iPad
and its 9.7-inch display.

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