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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home3/apvenbgo/public_html/vividtimes.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114<\/a><\/p>\n China has passed the U.S. to become the world\u2019s top country for active Android and iOS smartphones and tablets, a year after the country became the fastest-growing smart device market in the world. That’s the conclusion of a new report by Flurry Analytics, which tracks usage and device characteristics across a large number of mobile apps.<\/p>\n For its report, Flurry sourced from its entire data set of over 2.4 billion anonymous, aggregated app session daily across over 275,000 applications around the world. The company says it reliably measures activity in over 90 percent of the world\u2019s smart devices.<\/p>\n In January of this year, the U.S. and China were neck-and-neck in terms of their active smart device installed base, at 222 million and 221 million, respectively. By the end of this month, Flurry estimates that will change to 230 million in the U.S. and 246 million in China.<\/p>\n Flurry concluded that the U.S. will not take back the lead from China, given the vast difference in\u00a0population per country. China has over 1.3 billion people while the U.S. has just over 310 million.\u00a0Considering that the U.S. has the worlds\u2019 3rd largest population, the only other country that could feasibly overtake China sometime in the future is India, with a population of just over 1.2 \u00a0billion. However, with only 19 million active smart devices in India, China will not likely see competition from India for many years. Below, we show the top 12 countries by active iOS and Android installed base through the end of January 2013.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The chart shows that the U.S. and China each have more than five times the active installed base than that of the U.K., the world\u2019s third largest market. Additionally, both China and the U.S. continue to see rapid device adoption. Year-over-year, compared to January 2012, the U.S. added 55 million new devices. However, in that same time, China added a staggering 150 million new devices. With its growth rate, China would have passed the U.S. earlier, except for the U.S.\u2019s massive holiday season, which enabled the U.S. to hold off China for an additional two months.<\/p>\n