Android now has over 1 billion users, Google revealed today at the company’s I/O developer conference, up from 538 million last year.
This is not just a count of devices sold: These are people who have actively used an Android device within the last 30 days.
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In addition, Google noted that Android users send over 20 billion text messages each and every day.
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They also take around 93 million selfies every day.
And, thanks to fitness-tracking features within Android, we know that they take about 1.5 trillion steps per day. With an average step length of about 2 feet, that’s about 914 million kilometers — or more than enough to walk from the Earth to Jupiter.
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