Chief Executive OfficerGoogleSundar Pichai announced before the presentation of the new Nexus smartphones that the number of users of the company's mobile operating system has reached 1.4 billion people.
According to the head of the corporation, the popularity of the mobile platform is due to the fact that Google has always focused on releasing large-scale and open ecosystems. The increase in the number of usersAndroidImpressive, considering that just a few months ago at the Google I/O conference, the company reported a billion active users.
Confirmation of this fact is that some applications inGoogle PlayThey have been installed more than a billion times, while a large number of users in China remain outside official statistics, where the company's services are banned, and local mobile electronics manufacturers, such as Xiaomi and Meizu, use their own ecosystems.
Continuing the discussion about the number of users, Google representatives reported 20 million Chromecast devices sold, and to top it all off, Sundar Pichai noted that the company is confidently moving towards reaching the milestone of two billion Android users.