17.4 million device activations occurred on December 25.
More tablets and smartphones were activated on Christmas than ever before, according to data from analytics firm Flurry.
Device activations increased from a daily December average of 4 million to 17.4 million on Christmas day, representing an increase of 332 percent. It's also more than double the 6.8 million devices activated on Christmas last year, which was the previous single-day record holder.
More tablets were activated on Christmas this year than handsets, with the iPad accounting for a considerable proportion of the category. The Kindle Fire HD 7-inch tablet, meanwhile, experienced its strongest showing ever.
App downloads also increased by more than double their daily December average on Christmas. On December 25, device owners downloaded 20 million apps per hour, Flurry said.
"Over the next week, up through New Year’s Day, app download rates will remain significantly elevated. Flurry anticipates downloads to surpass more than 1.5 billion, and have a shot at breaking through the 2-billion download barrier for the first time ever. We look forward to accelerated growth in 2013, and continued success for developers."
I'd like to see Google Play get some of the App Store's higher-quality offerings too.
Haven't seen hard numbers yet but the anecdotal evidence doesn't look good:
http://news.yahoo.com/microsoft-surface-trampled-bottom-tablet-pile-christmas-150544506.html
Not sent from my iPad
Also, we don't even have Windows Phone 8 numbers at this time. Considering core similarities, I'm a bit unsure whether it's possible to break WP8 numbers from W8 numbers.
Agreed, Win 8 is positioned as a complete loss. But, what I really wanted to get from the article was how many more activations Android got that iDevices? Sadly, the important figures were missing.
I used a Nexus 7 for a while. Indeed it's a nice kit but to say it releaves itself on all versions of the iPad is stretching it quite a bit. The Retina display simply looks far far far better. ...and I'd be surprised if it's any faster than an iPad 3 or 4. The iPad 3 or 4 and Nexus 7 are all premium. An Asus Transformer Infinity? Very nice...if you get one w/out pixel defects.
Out of all those 17.4m activations, I would have liked to have seen how many were Android vs IOS. I guess Flurry didn't want to see Apple stock take any more of a beating that it already has.