App downloads hit new record in holiday 2012

A new research released on Wednesday showed that application downloads and new mobile device activations hit new records during the last week of 2012. According to app analytics platform Flurry, over 50 million devices running on Apple's iOS and Google's Android operating systems were activated and 1.76 billion applications were downloaded during the week between Dec. 25 and Dec. 31 in 2012. The research did not release the activation numbers of "iOS VS Android." During the last week of 2011, around 20 million mobile devices were activated and 1.2 billion apps were downloaded, according to Flurry. The new research also analyzed the app downloads over the last week of 2012 by country. A total of 604 million apps were downloaded in the United States during the holiday week, accounting for 34.3 percent of the worldwide apps downloads. China followed up in second with 183 million and Britain ranked the third with 132 million apps downloaded. Looking forward to 2013, Flurry expects a continued record- breaking adoption of mobile devices and applications with one- billion-download weeks to become the norm.