Both Android and iOS saw tremendous growth this past holiday season, with device activations jumping 353% to 6.8 million on Christmas day. On the same day users downloaded more than 242 million new Android and iOS apps according to market watcher Flurry Analytics. During the final week of the year, over 20 million iOS and Android devices were activated, and a record-breaking 1.2 billion new apps were downloaded, according to Flurry. Downloads grew by 60% over the early-December baseline, with the United States contributing to 509 million downloads, or 42.3%. Looking forward to 2012, Flurry expects that breaking 1 billion downloads in a single week will become more common as Android and iOS continue to grow rapidly.
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Android Central reader @mjroberts22 this morning alerted us to an evil developer in the Android Market. A number of apps from Quarter MiLL look legit. We’ve featured Super Why Adventures — a children’s app — on the site before. But look closely. In the app description, and after paying your $1.99 here, you’ll note that it says to download the Amazon version of the app if this one isn’t working properly.
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You’re going to be using your smartphone more in 2012 than you did in 2011. And likely more the year after that, and the year after that. It’s just the way of the world, folks. That makes this resolution all the more important. And while we’re all guilty of breaking it, there’s just no excuse.
Read more on Android Resolutions: Resolve to be hands-free in the car…

We really do have a hard time without using the word “BlackBerry” in a sentence without also using the words “dying,” “obsolete” or “time to switch.” But we’re also intrigued by how hard both RIM and enterprising hackers have been in running full-fledged Android apps — including the Android Market — on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet.
Read more on CrackBerry tells how to install Android Market, apps to the PlayBook tablet…

Being the “apps guy” is an interesting position. It means I get tasked to play with apps all day long, each and every day. It feels a lot like being an adventurer, wandering through a dense (really dense) forest, where danger and suspense lurk around every corner.

Being the “apps guy” is an interesting position. It means I get tasked to play with apps all day long, each and every day. It feels a lot like being an adventurer, wandering through a dense (really dense) forest, where danger and suspense lurk around every corner.

Applications come and go on a daily basis, some for testing purposes, others because they are new and shiny and well I think I have to have them.
Only a few applications make the daily use category, so hit the break to find out which those are!

Applications come and go on a daily basis, some for testing purposes, others because they are new and shiny and well I think I have to have them.
Only a few applications make the daily use category, so hit the break to find out which those are!

Being the “apps guy” is an interesting position. It means I get tasked to play with apps all day long, each and every day. It feels a lot like being an adventurer, wandering through a dense (really dense) forest, where danger and suspense lurk around every corner.

Applications come and go on a daily basis, some for testing purposes, others because they are new and shiny and well I think I have to have them.
Only a few applications make the daily use category, so hit the break to find out which those are!
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