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It seems that 79 per cent of smartphone users check for their devices within 15 minutes of waking up. A majority - 62 per cent - don’t even wait 15 minutes, and grab their phones immediately…
On average, we visit the Facebook app or the site 13.8 times during the day, for two minutes and 22 seconds each time…
That’s roughly a fifth of all the time we spend communicating; it’s only slightly less time than we spend texting. On weekends, we check Facebook more than we text.
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- (via Daily Mail)
#Tech #facebook #social media #usage #stats #statistics #time #smartphones #mobile #iphone #frequency
"‘Mobile search is just broken. Everyone in this goes to Yelp and searches and each of us get the same result. That’s clearly a broken model because every one of us is going to do different things or have different favorites’ [Dennis Crowley] said, highlighting that Foursquare’s focus is on personalized search, with result tailored to the user based on their previous information."
- Foursquare Shifts To Search - Forbes
#Tech #location #mobile #search #foursquare #dennis crowley #smartphones #iphone #data #predictive search #checkin #checkins #forbes
"1 in 4 teens are “cell-mostly” internet users, who say they mostly go online using their phone and not using some other device such as a desktop or laptop computer."
- (via Pew Internet: Teens and Technology 2013)
#Tech #teens #teen #teenager #digital life #Digital Literacy #digital culture #society #demographics #mobile #iphone #smartphone #smartphones #internet #computers
Steve Jobs in 2010:
“When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that’s what you needed on the farms. Cars became more popular as cities rose, and things like power steering and automatic transmission became popular.
PCs are going to be like trucks. They are still going to be around…they are going to be one out of x people…
When I am going to write that 35-page analyst report, I am going to want my Bluetooth keyboard. That’s 1 percent of the time. The software will get more powerful. I think your vision would have to be pretty short to think these can’t grow into machines that can do more things, like editing video, graphic arts, productivity. You can imagine all of these content creation possibilities on these kind of things. Time takes care of lots of these things.”
This year, about five times as many smartphones will be shipped versus PCs, and tablets will surpass PCs for the first time. According to Jobs, the right way to look at this isn’t that mobile devices are creating a new market. It’s that mobile devices are relegating PCs to special-purpose, mostly industrial devices.
#Tech #mobile #ipad #smartphones #smartphone #iphone #PCs #personal computers #microsoft #apple
"I love it for no other reason than that it actually feels like we are being pulled forward. It’s hard to say that something like that has happened since the iPhone. The innovation aspect just makes it seems like a big pull forward."
- Ian Shafer, CEO of Deep Focus | Is Google Glass A Smartphone Killer?
#Tech #gadgets #adweek #advertising #google #google glass #glass #innovation #the future #future #iphone #mobile #augmented reality #AR #invention #cool #deep focus
pewinternet:
As of December 2012, 87% of American adults have a cell phone, and 45% have a smartphone. As of January 2013, 26% of American adults own an e-book reader, and 31% own a tablet computer. (more)
(via thenextweb)
#Tech #mobile #smartphone #smartphones #iphone #ebook #e-book #tablet #stats #statistics #gadgets
eMarketer:
In the 18- to 34-year-old demographic in particular, TV’s edge is slipping. Just 30% of that group said they expected TV to be their primary source of news and entertainment this year, with 28% saying it will instead be their laptop computer, and another 17% citing their smartphone.
#tech #television #stats #statistics #tv #internet #smartphone #iphone #news #media #consumption #digital #tablets
"By 2015, more Americans will access the internet through mobile devices than through desktop computers."
- Says prediction by International Data Corporation. (via An A List Apart Article and slantback)
(via slantback)
#tech #mobile #internet #smartphone #smartphones #iphone #predictions
Nearly all Generation Y consumers owned a mobile phone of some kind and 72% owned smartphones. Nationwide 93% of Americans owned mobile phones, but just 50% owned smartphones. (via eMarketer)
#tech #mobile #iphone #geny #generation y #gen y #gen z #demographics #smartphone #smartphones
"It’s not just about getting stuff done, as that too is just massively overrated. It’s about a lack of peace and calmness. When do we take time anymore just to do nothing. Even standing in line for a coffee (which is, of course a take out coffee, since there’s no time to just sit in a cafe and enjoy a hot cup of coffee in a real cup) everyone’s on their phones, doing stuff. The human brain actually needs time, every day, just to do nothing and process all of the events that are transpiring.
So what am I doing? Focusing on purposeful activity, single-tasking, and shutting down virtually anything that expects me to deal with it imminently, as there are truly very few events which can transpire that I must reply to in real-time. Somehow I doubt this will negatively impact either my professional or personal life in any way. This doesn’t mean I won’t use services like Yelp, Twitter, Facebook, IM, and the like – it just means I’m getting a lot more comfortable turning them off for long stretches.
My focus in 2013: Enjoying the moments, and having them for myself – not others. Enjoying the view, not the retweets of the photos. Enjoying the funny/cute/silly kids, not worrying about grabbing the camera, nor counting the likes or comments. Enjoying walking into an unknown restaurant, ordering anything I like, getting delighted by it, and telling a friend about it some other time. Sorry real-time, I’m pushing pause."
- My New Year’s Tech Resolution: Quitting Real-Time
#tech #social media #real time #disconnect #internet age #internet #mobile #iphone #yolo #fomo #fear of missing out
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Filters are a hook, a glittering lure. They gave many people a reason to try Instagram in 2010, but it wasn’t why people really stuck around and kept using the app. That had more to do with simplicity, speed, and being the right app at the right time.
Once the hook was in with Instagram’s filters in 2010, the true value of the network become immediately apparent to anyone willing to look: Instagram turned everyone into a photographer. The filters gave people like me courage to make that jump. It didn’t matter if our pictures were shitty and made only slightly less shitty by the filters. All that mattered was we were all now taking pictures. A lot of them. And we became interested in other peoples’ pictures.
And that mattered because for the first time, there was a social network that could communicate across all languages. Instagram became a visual language at scale.
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- I Love The Smell Of Sepia Tone In The Morning | TechCrunch
#tech #instagram #photography #mobile #iphone #apps #photo apps #social media
"A Nielsen report has stated that Foursquare has 10.4 million monthly users, putting it third behind Facebook and Twitter in terms of monthly mobile users… this means 42% of the 25 million of those who have downloaded the app are using it regularly."
- Foursquare is the third most used Mobile social app
#foursquare #geolocation #location #social media #statistics #stats #tech #mobile #iphone
