More Android and Apple (AAPL) devices were activated on Christmas Day this year than on any other day in history, according to a report released this week.
A whopping 17.4 million iOS and Google (GOOG) Android devices were activated on Dec. 25, up 332% compared with the average of just 4 million from Dec. 1 through Dec. 20, according to data from Flurry, an app analytics company.
The activations surpassed the previous record of Christmas Day 2011 by two-and-a-half times, according to Flurry, which claims to detect more than 90% of all new iOS and Android activations each day.
At the same time, tablets outpaced smartphones, making up some 51% of Dec. 25’s activations, led by Apple’s iPad family and Amazon’s (AMZN) Kindle Fire. On a typical day, smartphones usually outpace tablets 4-to-1, Flurry said.
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