According to AFP
”Google (NSDQ: GOOG) feels it’s not getting credit for how strong sales of Android-powered phones are, so CEO Eric Schmidt is going on the offensive, telling shareholders that the company’s partners are shipping at least 65,000 handsets with the Google open-source operating system every day.”

Schmidt’s observations go after market investigator NPD’s details that,
“The dozen or so Android-based smartphones have out-sold Apple’s one and only iPhone.”

Schmidt assumed in February,
“That 60,000 Android devices were being shipped each day. “

The NPD description positioned RIM’s BlackBerry in the top with 36 percent souk share, at the same time as Apple’s OS cut down to third at 21 percent, inserting Google’s Android in the center with 28 percent.
Subsequent to publicizing the most recent figure highlighting Android’s position in the market.

Schmidt grumbled that,
“if you check the blogosphere, you’ll discover there are some reports that number might be quite low.” Nonetheless, the AFP article did not utter if Schmidt talked about arriving figures for Google’s possession of Nexus One handset.

Google is pressuring the “openness” of its system vs. Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), which has freshly targeted for its taut power of what kind of software apps and websites can utilize on its iPhone and iPad devices. whilst Apple leftovers in front in terms of the apps obtainable for its device.

Schmidt said,
“The company is willing to be patient. While it is true that we are very happy to give away Android, the applications and the services that can be provided on a very large, very broad framework can be enormously valuable over the next five or 10 years.”

[Via Moconews]