Consumers activated more than 50 million iOS and Android devices...
Consumers activated more than 50 million iOS and Android devices between Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve, the highest ever weeklong result, mobile application analytics provider Flurry said Wednesday. The final week of 2012 was also record-setting for app downloads…
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-- consumers downloaded 1.76 billion apps during that period, including 328 million downloads on Christmas Day, Flurry said. U.S. consumers made 604 million app downloads during the period -- 34.3 percent of the global total; China had 183 million downloads, while the U.K. had 132 million, Flurry said. “It’s not surprising that the U.S. continues to lead the rest of the world, especially since the fast-closing second place China does not celebrate Christmas (only 3 [percent] of China’s population is Christian),” Flurry said in a blog post. There were several weeks since late November when there were more than a billion app downloads per week, and that is likely to become the norm in 2013; Flurry said it predicts there will be more than 2 billion app downloads per week during Q4 2013. Flurry said it based its results on data released by Google and Apple, as well as data from more than 260,000 apps. The company’s analytics service is included in more than 25 percent of all apps downloaded through the App Store and Google Play (http://xrl.us/bn8wxg).