More signs Android is taking a growing share of the operating software for smartphones in the United States. Google’s mobile OS has 43.7 percent of the U.S. market, according to August research by Internet measurement firm ComScore. The nearly 44 percent market ownership is a 5.6 percent jump from the end of May.
After a furor from the gay community over an app asking the question ‘Is My Son Gay?’, the Android Market has apparently yanked the title. “Google had pulled it from the site unilaterally,” an Australian news site reported Tuesday. Turns out, the app designed to help mothers determine whether they sons are gay, was commissioned by a French author to promote his book.
Six weeks before it officially goes on sale, Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire is shaping up to be the biggest tablet launch ever… and Cult of Android has the numbers to prove it.
A verified source within the Seattle based online retail giant has provided Cult of Android with exclusive screenshots of Amazon’s internal inventory management system Alaska (Availability Lookup and SKU Aggregator).
These leaked shoots show that orders for Amazon’s Android-based tablet are racking up at an average rate of over 2,000 units per hour, or over 50,000 per day.
In the five days since Amazon put the Kindle Fire up on their official site, over 250,000 tablets have been preordered. If this level of consumer demand for the Kindle Fire continues, Amazon will have 2.5 million preorders for the device before it officially goes on sale on November 15th.
Those numbers make the Kindle Fire’s launch likely to be the biggest tablet launch in history, beating both the iPad and iPad 2 in first month sales.
It seems bizarre to me that Google hasn’t already introduced its popular web browser to its own smartphone operating system, however, it’s better late then never. According to the company’s Chromium Code Reviews website, Chrome for Android is on its way.
