May 15, 2013 01:48 PM EDT
The keynote was opened by Sundar Pichai who spoke of the growing Android market, “Android started with a simple goal to bring open standards to the world. Today, it is the most popular mobile operating system in the world.”
Some of the remarkable facts presented included:
GooGoogle Play has delivered 48 billion application installs to date, and 2.5 billion in the last month alone. #io13 #keynote #io13android
Finally Pichai concluded by pointing out that there were 7 billion people in the world and there were numerous emerging markets in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America where Android penetration was only 10% or less of the market. Pichai indicated that in the future Android would be targeting these markets for growth.
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