Record Christmas for iOS and Android

On Christmas and New Year to give gifts to relatives, friends and colleagues. No wonder that in this period there is the most active surge of activations of mobile devices based on Android and iOS. However, the past Christmas (on its west mark the 25 th of December) marked an absolute record for humanity - this day was activated 2.5 times the iPhone, iPad, Galaxy, Kindle Fire and other new-fangled gadgets than in the same holiday last year.

The primary source of data was not any study of the regular "lead analyst" and fresh press release reputable company Flurry AnalyticsTask of collecting statistics from 260 thousand applications on different platforms. The information provided seems to be quite accurate, since Flurry Analytics regularly compares the results with official statements of Google and Apple and adjusts data.

Number of activations of mobile devices based on Android and iOS Christmas Day 332 percent higher than the average value of this index during December.

As stated in the release of Flurry, during the first 20 days of December activated about four million devices (with a small fluctuation in thousands) daily. Last Tuesday was recorded 17.4 million new devices.

It is clear that the surge of activations of iOS and Android gadgets is the rapid growth of app downloads. The company Flurry conducted a series of measurements, compare the results with the official statements by Apple and Google to install software and found the following:

On the day of the Nativity of users have downloaded 112 percent more applications than the average from the 1st to December 20th. This result broke the record of the previous years and therefore is an absolute record for mankind.

Finally I would like to separately draw the reader's attention to the ratio between activated smartphones and tablets:

In normal days of December one had four active tablet smartphone and on Christmas Day, this indicator has changed dramatically - 51% of the activated device fell on the plates.

In terms of specific models, according to the information Flurry activations leaders are iPad, iPad mini and Kindle Fire HD 7. Note that is not listed as the much-vaunted Microsoft Surface. It is not surprising, as you remember, How to meet Christmas in the Apple and Microsoft stores and as buyers were happy their novelty on Twitter.

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