Android Now Has 1 Billion Active Users

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By Seth Fiegerman2014-06-25 16:31:38 UTC

Google announced hitting a major milestone on Wednesday: one billion active Android users.

The stat was revealed by Sundar Pichai, Google's head of Android, during Google's big I/O developer conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. Researchers had predicted that Google would hit the one billion mark sometime this year.

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Apple, by comparison, recently announced having sold "well over" 800 million iOS devices to date, though it didn't reveal how many monthly active iOS users there are.

Google also revealed a couple other eye-popping stats for the platform, including that Android users send 20 billion texts per day and 93 million selfies.

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