Droid Dominates Downloads over Holidays, Trails App Store, Says Flurry

Flurry evaluated download growth driven by Christmas across the leading Apple and Android devices, as well as their respective app stores, pulling a sample that represents approximately 10% of all download volume in the App Store and Android Market.

Droid Lead Android Downloads for Christmas, but Android Market Trailed App Store

  • Android devices also showed growth during the Holiday season, led by the Motorola Droid.
  • Droid application downloads increased by 93% over previous Fridays in December.
  • Droid accounted for 48% of download volume across the leading Android handsets (Droid, myTouch 3G, G1 and HTC Hero).

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App Store download volume is more than 13 times greater than Android Market.

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