Happy holidays, Apple: iPhone triumphs as favorite gift – CNET in Spanish

New data from analytics firm Flurry say the Cupertino giant cell and its star dominated the holiday, followed by Samsung in second place.

From left to right, iPhone 5S, iPhone 6 , 6 Plus iPhone, iPad 2 and iPad Mini Air. Sarah Tew / CNET

Apple are in luck. The iPhone seems to have been a favorite gift this holiday season.

Apple devices accounted for 51.3 percent of all device activations in the week prior to December 25, according to the mobile market analysis firm Flurry; more than two-thirds of these devices were middle smartphones. Second Samsung started off with 17.7 percent of all activations of devices, and Nokia was in third place with 5.3 percent.

Flurry deduce what were the operational and mobile systems sold considering download popular apps like Instagram or Facebook that took place between 21 and 25 December. These data are often similar to a comparison from year to year, but on Christmas Day occurs on larger downloads.

“To put this in perspective, for every Samsung device was activated, activated 2.9 Apple devices. Each device enabled Lumia Microsoft, Apple activated 8.8 devices, “said Jarah Euston, vice president of marketing at Flurry analytics and. The company has in its analysis with more than 190,000 companies covering around 600,000 mobile applications.

new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus iPhone Apple have served to regain popularity and maintain different markets pleasing those who want adjusted 4.7 inch screens but also those who want the 5.5 inches. Apple sold 39.3 million devices in the quarter ended September 30 and 10 million units in the first weekend, according to the records.

The report Flurry also serves as another testament to the growing popularity of these large screen devices, which are rapidly gaining ground against the devices with smaller screens.

Since 2013, the percentage of new activations of tablets was reduced from 17 percent to 13 percent while the percentage of smaller tablets, as viewed Apple IPAD Mini fall 12 percent of the total device activations to 11 percent.

tabléfonos, conversely, significantly from 4 percent of all activations last year to 13 percent increased, while mobile medium size single percentage fell 64 percent.