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A video recently appeared on the Android developers' YouTube Channel that purports to depict, on a map of the world, where every single Android device has bee activated since the platform's debut in late 2008. Besides being an visually stunning presentation, the map shows how significant the 2009 debut of the Motorola Droid was for mobile OS.
The video, embedded below, shows activations via an brightly colored spike on the dark background of the map. The more phones activated, the larger the spike. Focusing on North America, spikes are slow and steady up until fall 2009, when the map becomes a kaleidescope of color upon the release of the Droid, the first phone with Android 2.0.
The launch of Samsung's Galaxy S is also timed on the map, though the effect isn't nearly so dramatic. When the video reaches the June 2010 release of the Galaxy S, there isn't much noticeable difference in the U.S., but several small spikes emerge in Asia. The Galaxy S was first launched in Singapore.
Will today's release of the Motorola Xoom, the world's first tablet to run Android 3.0 "Honeycomb," produce another huge spike in activations? We'll have to wait for an update from the developers to find out.
A video recently appeared on the Android developers' YouTube Channel that purports to depict, on a map of the world, where every single Android device has bee activated since the platform's debut in late 2008. Besides being an visually stunning presentation, the map shows how significant the 2009 debut of the Motorola Droid was for mobile OS.
The video, embedded below, shows activations via an brightly colored spike on the dark background of the map. The more phones activated, the larger the spike. Focusing on North America, spikes are slow and steady up until fall 2009, when the map becomes a kaleidescope of color upon the release of the Droid, the first phone with Android 2.0.
The launch of Samsung's Galaxy S is also timed on the map, though the effect isn't nearly so dramatic. When the video reaches the June 2010 release of the Galaxy S, there isn't much noticeable difference in the U.S., but several small spikes emerge in Asia. The Galaxy S was first launched in Singapore.
Will today's release of the Motorola Xoom, the world's first tablet to run Android 3.0 "Honeycomb," produce another huge spike in activations? We'll have to wait for an update from the developers to find out.
Source: PCMag
