Record app sales during Christmas bonanza

Research from Flurry confirmed that Christmas 2011 was dominated by smartphones and tablets, with the result that 242 million apps were downloaded on the big day and 1.2 billion across the holiday week of December 25th-31st.

It’s the first time app downloads have passed 1 billion in a week, said Flurry.

By comparison the stats say that an average of 750 million apps downloaded per week earlier in December. That’s a 60 per cent jump.

The US consumer did the most downloading at 509 million, followed by China (99m), and the UK (81m).

ME has more details.