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These types of articles really annoy me. Reported as facts with lots of percentages and graphs to reinforce this. However, the original blog article from Flurry gave no indication as to how it arrived at the results. Flurry doesn't have access to Apple's activation server - but it collects lots of data from apps which use their analytics platform and no doubt their software collects information about a users device.

But in going from app analytics to device activations they've had to make some assumptions - presumably based on new devices that they are seeing for the first time. But maybe people download more apps during the holidays, maybe more developers on iOS use flurry than Android...? 

Not that I disagree that Apple is probably dominant I do hate lazy reporting that makes no effort to question or validate the data contained within a blog post before reporting it as facts!!!!