As CEO Steve Jobs boasted at the company's San Francisco event yesterday that Apple is activating 230,000 iOS devices per day, he also took the opportunity to accuse competitors of boosting their device activation numbers.
"We think some of our friends are counting upgrades in their numbers," said Jobs, likely referring to the recent figures from Google, whose CEO, Eric Schmidt, claimed that 200,000 Android activations were made daily in August.
Google quickly responded to Jobs's allegations. A Goole spokesperson told 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."