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2011: The year mobile took over the world
Janine Love
12/15/2011 7:32 PM EST
I just heard from Mobile Future about a video they made summarizing the 2011 top statistics in mobile. It's an amusing little piece that helps put mobile applications into perspective. It ends with the claim, "2011 was the year mobile took over the world." Check it out here:
If you aren't up for a lively video experience, here are the key statistics according to Mobile Future:
If you'd like more info, head to Mobile Future's website: www.mobilefuture.org
Enjoy!!
If you aren't up for a lively video experience, here are the key statistics according to Mobile Future:
- Whopping increase in app creation and downloads:
- ONE BILLION apps downloaded worldwide each month
- $3 BILLION paid by Apple alone to independent apps developers
- Surge in use of social media mobile platforms
- 166 PERCENT increase in Facebook Mobile users in the first half of 2011 alone
- 103 MILLION wireless tweets were posted each day
- ONE BILLION Foursquare check-ins
- 26 PHOTOS were made "hipstery" on Instagram every second
- Ongoing explosion in data traffic
- EIGHT TRILLION texts were sent - up 1.1 trillion from last year
- 1800 PERCENT increase in traffic on U.S. networks predicted in just four years
- Unprecedented competition and choice
- MORE SMARTPHONES purchased than PCs in the United States
- MORE WIRELESS SUBSCRIPTIONS than people
- TWO BILLION networked mobile devices by 2015
- 4G SERVICES being rolled out by at least six carriers in 2011 alone
- Massive potential for job creation and economic growth:
- 2.4 MILLION American jobs supported by wireless
- $27.5 BILLION investment in U.S. mobile networks by wireless carriers
- 500,000 JOBS & $400 BILLION to U.S. GDP with additional 500 MHz of additional spectrum
If you'd like more info, head to Mobile Future's website: www.mobilefuture.org
Enjoy!!
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agk
12/24/2011 7:33 AM EST
1800% increase in data traffic in 4 years ! great speed. This video to be seen by every one. The data here are astonishing. We are all living in the great time of communication era.
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hm
12/24/2011 8:43 AM EST
This may be beginning. Add developing world in next decade and this number will be huge.
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Frank Eory
12/26/2011 12:50 PM EST
One billion app downloads per month is a staggering figure -- an average of one app per month for every 7 people on the planet. It seems like a great time to be a software developer.
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