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How is Google playing catch-up? Android is the clear market share leader, and is still accelerating.

According to Google's most recent numbers, Android is shipping 300,000 devices per day. While Apple has a lot of mindshare, the reality is that they're in a solid #2 position in the US, and #3 worldwide.

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iOS is reportedly shiping on 360,000 per day:

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/01/19/highlights-of-apples-1q-...

That would be a greater number than 300,000.

If you look at browser traffic share, either iOS has a much larger installed base, or Android users surf the Web a lot less.

Google is playing catch up in a big way in terms of making money for themselves and developers. Apple, and iOS devs, are definitely way in the lead in terms of monetizing mobile, and Google isn't even close at this point.

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