Mobile Internet is becoming the Internet
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People no longer spend hours gazing at a computer screen after work or class, instead , they use their mobile devices to stay online everywhere, all the time. Smartphones and tablets are obviously the hottest technology products right now, but figures about how significant they have become are daunting. Meeker forecasts the worldwide number of smartphone and tablets users should overtake the worldwide number of PC users next year. That means around the world, more people experience of "computing" and Internet Technology will come from mobile devices than via traditional desktop or notebook PCs. If forecasts bear out, this shift will not only continue, but accelerate. Based on data from Morgan Stanley and a few assumptions about device lifetime, Meeker estimates roughly 2.9 billion people around the world will be using smartphones and tablets by 2015.
Press Release - Mobile Internet Users to Top 2 Billion Worldwide in 2016, According to IDC.
According to a Press Release, The International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that 3.2 billion people, or 44% of the world's population, will have access to the Internet in 2016. Of this number, more than 2 billion will be using mobile devices to do so.
The total number of mobile Internet users is forecast to rise at a pace of 2% annually through 2020 unless significant new methods of accessing the Internet are introduced. Efforts by Google, SpaceX, and Facebook among others to make the Internet available to the remaining 4 billion people via high altitude planes, balloons, and satellites are underway. However, it remains unclear how successful these endeavors will be and when they will be operational at scale.
Bibliography:
1. Duncan, G. (2012). What Happens To The Web Now That Smartphones And Tablets Run The Show. [Online] Available at: http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/get-used-to-it-mobile-is-taking-over-the-internet/ (Accessed on 30 November 2016).
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