digithoughts: iOS and Android device adoption rate said to be fastest in history BGR: According to analytics firm Flurry, the adoption rate of iOS and Android devices has now surpassed all other consumer technologies in history. Smartphones and tablets are being adopted at a rate 10 times faster than PCs from the 1980s, two times faster than the Internet in the 1990s, and three times faster than the current social networking boom. Mobile. Personal computing. PCs, internet and social networking – smartphones are a perfect storm of all three.

digithoughts:

iOS and Android device adoption rate said to be fastest in history

BGR:

According to analytics firm Flurry, the adoption rate of iOS and Android devices has now surpassed all other consumer technologies in history. Smartphones and tablets are being adopted at a rate 10 times faster than PCs from the 1980s, two times faster than the Internet in the 1990s, and three times faster than the current social networking boom.

Mobile. Personal computing. PCs, internet and social networking – smartphones are a perfect storm of all three.

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    I know it sounds sheltered, but the gap between US & China vs. R.O.W (Rest of World) is shocking! Relative to population...
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