Monday, February 18, 2013

China became #1 smartphone market

Flurry reported that China overtook US as the biggest smartphone market in January 2013.  Given China's 1.3 billion population, it is not surprising to see China taking the #1 spot away from US.  Yet it highlights China is catching up fast to the world-wide smartphone adoption.


Source: http://blog.flurry.com/

As shown in the graph China's adoption has been steadily accelerating over the past couple of years.  Its adoption curve looks like a traditional hockey stick curve.  Its rate of growth is at 209% year over year, and from the graph the rate is likely increase in the future.


Source: http://blog.flurry.com/

Soon smartphone will be the truly personal device to access internet for majority of world population.  Smartphone is rapidly becoming a communication necessity for the most people.  I anticipate by 2016 there will be more connected devices than world population.

No comments:

Post a Comment