Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai said during the company’s earnings call that more than three billion monthly active devices are now running the Android operating system globally. I am proud that Android remains the world’s most popular operating system, with more than three billion monthly active devices worldwide, Pichai said during the company’s earnings call on Tuesday. Pichai noted that consumers activated one billion Android phones in 2021.
The Alphabet and Google CEO also said that the company is currently taking pre-orders for the Google Pixel 6a and Pixel Buds Pro, mentioning that it is great to see the positive response so far.
Talking about Google Lens, Pichai mentioned that people use the service to perform visual search more than 8 billion times per month. He also talked about a new feature called Multi-Search that helps people find the things they need using words and images at the same time.
Pichai mentioned that, later this year, Multi-Search will be able to help people find local results near them. “With the new monolingual approach to translation, we’ve added 24 new languages to Google Translate, spoken by 300 million people, and a new immersive view in Maps that uses computer vision, AI, and billions of images,” he said. To produce high fidelity representations of surrounding locations.
Meanwhile, the company also mentioned that YouTube Shorts is now being viewed by over 1.5 billion signed-in users every month, with over 30 billion daily views. In the April-June period, YouTube TV crossed 5 million subscribers, including trailers.
