Der Appanalytics-Anbieter Flurry: iOS and Android Adoption Explodes Internationally:
The rate of iOS and Android device adoption has surpassed that of any consumer technology in history. Compared to recent technologies, smart device adoption is being adopted 10X faster than that of the 80s PC revolution, 2X faster than that of 90s Internet Boom and 3X faster than that of recent social network adoption. Five years into the smart device growth curve, expansion of this new technology is rapidly expanding beyond early adopter markets such as such as North America and Western Europe, creating a true worldwide addressable market. Overall, Flurry estimates that there were over 640 million iOS and Android devices in use during the month of July 2012.
Drei mal schnellere Adoption als bei Social Networks. Das dürfte die kommende Bedeutung der Taschencomputer deutlich machen.
In Deutschland existieren aktuell 19 Millionen aktive iOS- und Android-Geräte laut Flurry.
(Vorausgesetzt natürlich, dass die Zahlen von Flurry korrekt sind. Ein Dienstleister für App-Anbieter hat ein natürliches Interesse daran, die Welt der Apps so gut wie möglich aussehen zu lassen.)