{"id":1271,"date":"2016-01-06T09:20:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T09:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.agencyplatform.com\/blog\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2019-08-29T13:44:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T13:44:03","slug":"apple-with-half-of-the-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencyplatform.com\/blog\/apple-with-half-of-the-device\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple with Half of the Device Activations Tops 2015 Holiday Season Gadgets Sales: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo&#8217;s online research arm, Flurry <a href=\"http:\/\/flurrymobile.tumblr.com\/post\/136133865650\/pha-la-la-a-real-phabulous-holiday\" rel=\"nofollow\">came out<\/a> with the year&#8217;s top holiday mobile stats. These stats show one of the premium smartphone manufacturers i.e. Apple Inc. topping the device table but slipping down a bit from its <a href=\"http:\/\/marketingland.com\/report-2-5x-app-installs-christmas-apple-device-activations-accounting-51-112714\" rel=\"nofollow\">previous year&#8217;s outing<\/a>. Apple Mobiles, which managed about half of all the device activations over 2015 holiday season, was followed by the South Korean giant, Samsung with 20% of the mobile market share. Nokia (2%) and L.G (1.7%) still managed to rank in the third and fourth positions respectively in 2015&#8217;s year-end holiday device activation list.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the good showing, Apple registered a slight dip of 2.2% in its device activation ranking as compared to its last year&#8217;s outing of 51.3%, while Samsung managed to up its tempo by 2.1% from it&#8217;s 2014&#8217;s showing.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the infographic data by Flurry:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Besides that, Flurry&#8217;s recent findings revealed that full sized tablets had more takers, closely followed by phablets and then mid sized phones. Small phones were the least activated devices over the year-end holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the infographic data by Flurry:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s infographic data on the basis of operating systems, as in, Android vs iOS in 2015:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last but not the least, Flurry observed 2.2x average number of apps installed over Christmas Day celebrations as compared to other regular December days, which is a bit low compared to the last year&#8217;s Christmas Day apps install speed of 2.5x.<\/p>\n<p>Want to comment? Please share your views in the section below. Would love to hear back from you. You can also write to us at <a href=\"mailto:sales@agencyplatform.com\">sales@agencyplatform.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo&#8217;s online research arm, Flurry came out with the year&#8217;s top holiday mobile stats. These stats show one of the premium smartphone manufacturers i.e. Apple Inc. topping the device table but slipping down a bit from its previous year&#8217;s outing. Apple Mobiles, which managed about half of all the device activations over 2015 holiday season, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,117,22],"tags":[125,275,408,23],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-2","category-ios","category-mobile","tag-apple","tag-device","tag-ios","tag-mobile-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Apple with Half of the Device Activations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Apple with Half of the Device Activations Tops 2015 Holiday Season Gadgets Sales: Report\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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