According to the results of the third quarter of this year, 75% of the global smartphone market belongs to Android.

The company’s internal studio yesterday released Air Patriots, Amazon’s first mobile project developed immediately for Kindle, Android and iOS. 

The results of a study conducted by BigInsight showed that young Americans prefer Android, and their grandfathers prefer iOS.

Gartner analysts are confident that in four years Android will become the most popular operating system in general, and not only among its mobile competitors. 

With each new version of Android, the platform’s monetization indicators are growing, according to Tapjoy. According to the company’s latest research, the ARPU of the latest version of the OS from Google has reached $1.63.

The number of downloads from Google Play in India has increased by 400% over the past year. Users of the country that gave the world the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata have installed more apps in the last six months alone than in the previous three years combined. 

Mike Montgomery, co-founder of the iconic British studio Bitmap Brothers, said that other popular titles of this company will soon follow the famous Speedball 2 and Z games that have already been released on mobile devices.

PowerA, a company specializing in peripherals and accessories, announced the imminent launch of its own controller for Android devices and at the same time announced its broad support from developers.  

The iOS platform is still the leader in the global tablet market, but Google soon hopes – and not unreasonably – to push it. And if until now the share of the search company’s platform in the tablet market has been growing mainly due to a wide range of devices and low prices for them, now Google has taken up content. 

Today, as planned by Sony, the PlayStation Mobile app store has opened, supporting the PS Vita and a number of devices certified by the Japanese company on the Android platform. The store’s starter package is 20 games.

MrNumber has shared a curious infographic about American Android users. As it turned out, 63% of Google OS users are absolutely not interested in buying an iPhone.

Yesterday it became known that Yandex is launching its own app store. Head of Yandex service.Store Alexander Zverev told us about the details of the new app store. 

The number of downloads of the New Star Soccer 5 game for iOS has exceeded the milestone of 1 million. This was told the other day by one of its creators, Simon Read, in an interview with the British resource Develop.

A little news about Android after the previous one: as it became known today, the number of activated devices based on the OS created by Google has reached a significant mark of an embarrassing 500 million. 

In 2013, the 1 billion gadget on the Android platform will be shipped, according to the global information company IHS.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the largest Chinese operator Alibaba Group plans to push the Android platform with its own OS – Aliyun, developed on the basis of Linux.

The week of announcements continues. This time, Apple’s real competitor in the American tablet market, Amazon, told about his new devices. As expected, he demonstrated as many as two next-generation Kindle Fire devices: one large and one slightly smaller. 

Ice cream is becoming more and more popular: the fourth version of Android accounts for almost a quarter of all devices based on the Google platform. 

Motorola Mobility, as a subsidiary of Google Corporation, has introduced three new Razr series smartphones based on the fourth version of Android.