The period of the winter holidays of 2011 could prove to be the most profitable in history for both smartphone and tablet manufacturers and application developers. Between December 25 and 31, 2011 they were Downloads 1.2 billion applications from the App Store and Android Market, 60% more than in any other weekend in December. The increase comes against the background of the purchase of new terminals by users and of course following the development of extremely attractive promotions by developers.
It seems that in the same period last year over 20 million iDevices and Android terminals were activated and this is a real record for the industry. This increase in sales justifies the increase in the number of downloaded applications, and the USA and China are the countries where users were extremely active. 509 million applications were downloaded from the US in just one week and 99 from China, and this proves how great the interest in the US is for such devices. The initial information is encouraging, now it remains to be seen how everything will evolve in the following months.
