The hol­i­days proved to be a high point for the two major app stores with 1.2 bil­lion global down­loads in a week. This was a 60 per­cent increase from the early part of December.

Christmas day had 6.8 mil­lion acti­va­tions of Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android phones, along with 242 mil­lion app down­loads on the one day alone of peo­ple eagerly want­ing to explore the full capa­bil­i­ties of their new devices.

The United States led the global num­bers with 509 mil­lion down­loads, fol­lowed by China with 99 mil­lion and the UK with 81 million.

This data shows the preva­lence of smart­phones in our soci­ety. Hundreds of thou­sands of appli­ca­tions are avail­able, so the com­mon phrase “There’s an app for that” really stands true for both Android and iOS phone systems.

From edu­ca­tion to sports to games of all shapes and forms, appli­ca­tion devel­op­ments for both sys­tems have got­ten quite vast and numerous.

The major com­pa­nies behind the phones, Apple and Google, see a por­tion of the prof­its being made from the apps. Apple and Google both receive a 30 per­cent cut on the sale of each application.

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