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The U.S. is no longer the global leader when it comes to new activations of Android and Apple devices, according to new data firm mobile analytics from Flurry.
China in February surpassed the U.S. for the first time ever in activations of new Apple and Android smartphones and tablets, Flurry said in a report on its blog Wednesday. During the month, 23 percent of global activations of devices running Apple’s iOS and Google Android mobile operating systems occurred in China, compared to 22 percent in the U.S. Back in January of last year, China accounted for just eight percent of the world’s iOS and Android device activations, while the U.S. lead with 28 percent.
"China is now the world’s fastest growing smart device market," Flurry said.
And the company predicts that the gap will widen even further this month, with 24 percent of iOS and Android activations occurring in China, and 21 percent in the U.S.
Overall, the U.S. still has more than twice as many active smart devices as China, Flurry estimated. But now that China is activating more devices than the U.S. each month, the Asian nation will likely at some point become the country with the largest population of smartphone users. China already has twice as many smartphone users as the next largest market, the U.K.
Meanwhile, China is also poised to overtake the U.S. as the leading market for smartphone shipments in 2012, according to data released last week by IDC. The research firm on Thursday predicted China will have a 20.7 percent share of the global smartphone market this year, narrowly overtaking the U.S. share of 20.6 percent.
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