Jobs Vs. Google Over New Activations

Most people were focused on the new product launch during Apple's event on Wednesday but Steve Jobs made sure to get a blow against smartphone rival Google GOOG . Jobs noted that Apple AAPL is activating 230,000 iOS-based devices per day. He made sure to specify that that's 230,000 new devices being activated each day. Says InformationWeek. Google's CEO Eric Schmidt recently let fly that the company is activating 200,000 new Android handsets per day. That number has swelled significantly since January of this year, when Google bragged of activating 60,000 Android handsets per day. Steve Jobs said, "We think some of our friends are counting upgrades in their numbers." In other words, Jobs implied that the 200,000 figure touted by Google includes devices that are being upgraded from Android 2.1 to Android 2.2, for example. A Google spokesperson to Fortune, "The Android activation numbers do not include upgrades and are, in fact, only a portion of the Android devices in the market since we only include devices that have Google services." Apple closed yesterday at $250.33 Google closed yesterday at $460.33