<http://schema.org/articleBody>
"More than a billion mobile apps were downloaded in a single week for the first time last month, a new study has claimed.  According to analytics company Flurry, 1.2 billion apps on smartphones and tablets running Google Android and Apple&amp;#039;s iOS were downloaded in the final week of December. In a blog post, the firm said that the record was down to the &amp;quot;significantly elevated device activations&amp;quot; between December 25 and New Year&amp;#039;s Day, including a peak of activity on Christmas Day. Flurry estimates that 6.8m iOS and Android devices were activated on Christmas Day, and there was a record-breaking 242m app downloads during the 24 hours. Over the Christmas &amp;quot;power week&amp;quot;, the company said that over 20 million iOS and Android devices were activated, and 1.2 billion apps were downloaded. This was up considerably on the 750,000 downloads in the previous week.  The US accounted for nearly half of the downloads, at 509m, followed by China (99m) and the UK (81m). Next came Canada (41m), Germany (40m) and France (40m). Flurry noted that the US leads the app downloads largely because it has the most active iOS and Android devices, but actually Canada showed the most proportional demand for apps.  Despite having only the eight largest install base, Canada accounted for the fourth-most downloads over the holiday period.  Flurry feels that the strong growth in app downloads will continue into this year, as smartphones become more widely adopted.  &amp;quot;Looking forward to 2012, Flurry expects breaking the one billion download barrier per week will become more common place,&amp;quot; said the firm. &amp;quot;While iOS and Android growth continues to amaze, the market is still by all measures relatively nascent. &amp;quot;We look forward to continuing to chart the unprecedented adoption of mobile computing devices, usage of applications and the way in which this technology is changing consumer behaviour worldwide.&amp;quot; Apple does not disclose its official activation data, but Google has said that more than 3.7m Android devices were activated over the Christmas weekend.  &amp;gt; iOS, Android activations double at Christmas 2011 &amp;gt; Google Android surpasses 10 billion app downloads "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://www.digitalspy.com/tech/news/a358136/mobile-app-downloads-reach-record-high-in-december/>