More than 65,000 Android phones are shipping every day

At Google’s annual shareholder meeting, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt announced that Google partners are shipping roughly 65,000 Android-powered handsets per day.

Research in Motion, makers of the Blackberry are still clearly the top company with nearly 36% of US smartphone sales, but Google and Apple are fighting hard for the #2 spot.  A recent report showed that Android devices outsold the iPhone in the first quarter of 2010, although it’s expected that Apple will move back ahead of them when the new iPhone is released this summer.

Schmidt also took the opportunity to take a shot at Apple: “We’re trying to build an entire ecosystem of openness, the inverse of the other guys.”

No one can say for sure how things will end up, but it certainly seems like Android will be here to stay for quite a while.