Apps Strike Record High In December

For the initial time in a singular week, more than a billion apps have been downloaded, according to a study.

Analytics definite Flurry mentioned 1.2 billion apps were downloaded in the final week of December.

Activity was buoyed by the information that many users received new gadgets for XMas and firms offering reduced apps over the legal holiday period.

The US was accountable for scarcely half of the downloads, followed by China and the UK.

With 81 million downloads, the UK simply surpassed Canada (41 million), Germany (40 million) and France (40 million).

It was battered to second mark by China with 99 million downloads. The US was out forward with 509 million.

Flurry thinks this turn of download wake up will become more standard.

"Looking forward to 2012, Flurry expects violation the a billion download blockade per week will become more commonplace," the definite mentioned in its blog. .

"While [Apple] iOS and [Google] Android expansion continues to amaze, the marketplace is still by all measures comparatively nascent."

Unsurprisingly, XMas valid a bang time for device makers. Flurry estimated that scarcely 7 million Android gadgets and iPhones were activated on XMas Day.

Apple does not divulge such total but Google fixed that more than 3.7 million Android gadgets were activated over the XMas weekend.