For several months we have been told that Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), is preparing to end 2014 with the most profitable fiscal quarter in history, and now we have solid proof to support the rumors. A company that analyzes the evolution of mobile terminals globally claims that the terminals iPhone and iPad represented half of the mobile terminals activated by Christmas.
The figure is colossal if we think that we are talking about an analysis made at a global level and she demonstrates the popularity of Apple products. In the image above you have a graph showing the difference between Apple and the rest of the manufacturers, Samsung being the only one that came close to a certain extent.
To put this in perspective, for every Samsung device that was activated, Apple activated 2.9 devices. For every Microsoft Lumia device activated, Apple activated 8.8 devices. While, the holidays in general and Christmas in particular are not the sole indicator of the smartphone market share and trends, it is safe to say that Apple's newly released iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus have had a blockbuster holiday season, despite a lackluster holiday season for the consumer electronics industry.
Practically, Apple activated 2.9 times more mobile terminals than Samsung and 8.8 times more than those from Microsoft, they owning the mobile division of Nokia. The difference increases even more if we look at Sony or LG, the rest of the manufacturers not represented in the graph having a number of activations lower than 1.3%, without knowing what the total number of activations was.
The data recorded by this analysis company were taken from 600.000 applications for mobile terminals available in various virtual stores. the monitoring period was December 19-25, so we are talking about a lot of Christmas gifts that turned out to be Apple products.
