February 19th, 2013
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vividtimes:

China Has Overtaken The US as The World’s Top Market For Smart Devices


China has passed the U.S. to become the world’s 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.

(via vividtimes.com)

Reblogged from Emergent Futures Tumblelog
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October 13th, 2012
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Zoom (via Google’s African affair: An internet giant puts its money where its mouth is | memeburn) But when an African consumer upgrades, or buys a tablet, they are more than likely going to choose an Android device. This is according to IDG Connect, whose research paper “Tablets 2020” says that African tablet owners demonstrated the lowest percentage of iPads (46%) and the joint highest number of Android owners (49% – tied with Asia).

(via Google’s African affair: An internet giant puts its money where its mouth is | memeburn)

But when an African consumer upgrades, or buys a tablet, they are more than likely going to choose an Android device. This is according to IDG Connect, whose research paper “Tablets 2020” says that African tablet owners demonstrated the lowest percentage of iPads (46%) and the joint highest number of Android owners (49% – tied with Asia).

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October 8th, 2012
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What Google+ Needs to Do to Kill Facebook

Turns out in fact, that Circles works best – guess where – on an Android handset. Organizing your contacts in Android 4+ using Circles is really nice, and the integration of everyone’s profile pics works really well. It’s the kind of thing that Facebook – if it had its own mobile OS – would probably be great at too, but without that level of OS integration, Google+Android (hey, that’s catchy…) is much more polished and useful. October 08, 2012 at 09:40AM

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February 21st, 2012
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Mobile Is Not Getting Ad Dollars It Should

Advertisers continue to spend way too much on print, and are missing the growth of mobile:

via Flurry

… iOS and Android smart devices have experienced twice the uptake rate compared to that of Internet adoption, and four times the rate compared to that of PC adoption.  Following this unprecedented adoption, advertising dollars are beginning to flow into mobile.  A recent IAB study reported that 63% of top brand marketers have increased their mobile advertising spending over the last two years, and that 72% plan to increase advertising spending over the next two years.

[…]

In short, despite the fact that mobile advertising is growing, the platform is far from getting rational levels of spending compared to other media.

Perhaps the mobile app market has grown too quickly, and the ad buying and distribution infrastructure is too immature. But with number rising like this, we will see a wholesale shift into mobile in the next few years.

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