据有关调研机构针对过去几天的调查数据显示，苹果iPhone、iPod touch（可能还有iPad）这些硬件产品在今年圣诞期间的激活量又是一路飙升，带动了手机应用软件下载量的激增。

从iOS应用分析公司MixPanel公布的数据曲线图中可以看出，今年圣诞假期的应用下载量比平时增加了两三倍左右。MixPanel公司也表示，根据他们的应用追踪情况来看，“手机应用下载量/销量总体上确实增长了2到3倍。”（见下图）

data from MixPanel

据游戏邦了解，《Tap Tap Revenge 4》这款iPhone/iPod游戏，今年圣诞节下载量比去年同期多了2倍；Facebook的iPhone版应用下载量也获得了大丰收，在3天时间中新增了160万iPhone用户，另外在Android版本的Facebook用户也增加了90万人。

苹果将于1月18日宣布圣诞假期收入，相信到时候又是一组惊人的数据。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

Many iPhone App Downloads Jumped 2-3X On Christmas

It’s beginning to look like Apple may have had a very, very merry Christmas. Not that it should surprise anyone given how many of their products were on year-end “best-of” lists. But some data that has started to come in over the past few days points to Apple’s Christmas surge once again being led by the mainstays: the iPhone and iPod touch (and probably the iPad as well).

Since yesterday, developers have been tweeting and messaging about huge spikes in downloads of their apps on Christmas. How huge? Just look at the chart in this post. We’re talking two to three times normal numbers. That particular graph came thanks to data from MixPanel, a Y Combinator startup that specializes in iOS analytics. We’ve since confirmed with the company that on the apps they track, they’re seeing the same “2-3x in app download/sales across the board.”

This data point coincides with others, such as Tap Tap Revenge 4, a game for the iPhone/iPod touch, which is seeing download traffic 2x what it was last Christmas, according to Business Insider.

Meanwhile, the site All Facebook looked at the data for Facebook’s iPhone app and also found a massive surge on Christmas. In fact, the app added some 1.6 million users in just the three days around Christmas. By comparison, Facebook for Android added some 900,000 users in the same span.

So what does all of this mean? Clearly that a lot of people got new iOS devices for the holidays and went on massive downloading binges. Apple will officially announce their holiday earnings on January 18. Expect a “boom” or two.（source:techcrunch）