If you received a new smartphone or tablet for Christmas, you're not alone; VentureBeat reports that over 17 million new iOS and Android devices were activated on Christmas day, according to analytics firm Flurry. That's a bump of over 330% over the average of the 20 days preceding the biggest gift-giving day of the year.
Perhaps even more interesting is the fact that while tablets accounted for just 20% of the activations between December 1-20, the 25th saw tablets take over, with 51% of new device activations coming from slates. As you might expect, the skyrocketing device statistics a
