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The growth compared with the average of previous Fridays in December, San Francisco-based Flurry said today in a report. Downloads of iPod Touch programs surpassed those for the iPhone for the first time.
Apple, based in Cupertino, California, offers more than 100,000 applications on its iTunes online store, boosting the appeal of its phones and media players. Google Inc., whose Android operating system runs phones made by Motorola Inc. and HTC Corp., has more than 12,000 applications available.
“Apple downloads continue to grow at staggering rates,” Peter Farago, a spokesman at Flurry, said in a telephone interview. “IPod Touch devices must have flooded the market over Christmas.”
Total Apple application downloads increased 51 percent in December from the previous month, compared with a 22 percent gain in Android downloads, Flurry said.
While Android results were strong, they don’t yet threaten Apple’s dominance, said Farago. The download volume for Apple is more than 13 times greater than for Android, according to Flurry data.
Android application downloads increased 93 percent on Christmas Day over previous Fridays in December. Motorola’s Droid phone accounted for about half the volume, Flurry said.
Apple gained $3.44 to $212.48 at 1:57 p.m. New York time in Nasdaq Stock Market trading. Google, based in Mountain View, California, rose $4.16 to $622.64. Schaumburg, Illinois-based Motorola fell 24 cents to $7.74 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading.
Source: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2009-12-28/apple-ipod-touch-application-downloads-jump-1-000-on-christmas.html
