by Gavin O'Malley on Sep 12, 11:54 AM
On the eve of Apple’s latest iPhone launch, Google wanted everyone to know how well its Android mobile operating system is faring. "Today is a big day for Android,” Hugo Bara, Android's director of product management,
announced in a Tuesday blog post. “500 million devices activated globally, and over 1.3 million added every single day.” “I see @arubin tweeting Android stats again,” MG Siegler
tweets. “Must be an iPhone event tomorrow.” Yes, the boast is “clearly meant to deflect attention from Apple’s iPhone 5 announcement,”
VentureBeat concurs -- adding that, in fact, “those figures show …