Google has some rather impressive numbers to share. And share it did, in the earnings’ call for this quarter. The company reports $14 billion revenue, for the quarter ending in June, which is up a massive 19% over the same quarter last year. But these are the numbers that Android fans would be waiting for – Larry Page reports that there are now 900 million Android phones globally, and that number is being added to on a daily basis to the tune of 1.5 million. Considering those are the number of daily activations that Android is witnessing on a daily basis, the company is on line with the target of the billionth activation by the end of the year.
Page also talked about the proverbial explosion on the Play Store. Over 50 billion apps have been downloaded from the Google Play Store, and the company reports that it paid out more to developers in the 6 months this year, than the whole of 2012.
The recently updated UI of the web version of the Google Play Store
The other talking point was the Chrome web browser. Launched just 4 years back, it already has clocked 750 million users worldwide.
Larry Page also talked about Google Maps and the updates it received, “This quarter we completely revamped our maps UI. The map is the screen, with no clutter around the edges. There’s more information about your surroundings, so it’s easier to explore. And we’ve launched a new, improved navigation feature—with notifications about incidents before you leave, and updates to save time if traffic conditions change. Best of all, this new maps experience is now available on almost all devices you’d be likely to use.”
The company also mentioned the updates Google received, particularly the way it handled photographs, the launch of the Hangouts messaging app and that Knowledge Graph search is now now available in 29 languages. All in all, a fairly busy quarter for Google!