HTC’s success over the past two and a half years has been attributed to the rapid adoption of Android and it’s many devices.  While HTC may not be the biggest player in the smartphone sector, we do know that they have a commanding lead over the competition when it comes to Android.  As Android grows, so goes HTC.  It might not be too far of a stretch to say that the success of Android is due to the innovations and great hardware that HTC keeps pushing out the door.  We’ll let you decide on that one.

Early this morning, Andy Rubin (he’s that guy at Google who’s in charge of the whole android thing) announced via twitter that 500,000 new Android devices age being activated on a daily basis.  If you break those numbers down you get 6 devices per second, 347 devices per minute, 20 thousand per hour, or an astonishing 3.5 million a week.

We’d be amazed at just that, but Rubin also added that Android is still growing at a rate of 4.4% week over week.  If that growth rate is sustained for another month or so, we should see that 500,000 daily activations number jump to over 600,000 by August and then 700,000 daily activations by September.  We knew that Apple’s iPhone days of glory were numbered, but we’d simply didn’t see this astonishing growth.

With Android on a brink of a massive market takeover, let’s hope HTC can keep up their pace of innovation and deliver the goods.  The last thing we’d want to see is HTC lose control of the situation simply because they can’t keep up with demand from their customers.

Source: Andy Rubin (Twitter)