Android passes 1.4B active devices as Google Play passes 1B active users

Google revealed a handful of milestones today during its Nexus event: Most interestingly, Android now powers 1.4 billion active devices — up from 1 billion last year, and the company’s app store, Google Play, now has over 1 billion active users.

That 1.4 billion figure is large, but it’s important to note that it doesn’t represent the total number of Android users; some users own multiple devices.

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Google went on to boast that there are now “more Chromebooks than every other device combined in U.S. schools.”

While the accuracy of this claim is debatable — the term “device” is pretty vague — it’s a clear dig at Apple, whose brightly colored iMacs long dominated many public school computer labs in the U.S.