NOV

• 55% of Twitter’s traffic comes from mobile devices. (source)
• 60% of Pandora’s traffic comes from mobile devices. (source)
• 54% of The Weather Channel’s October page views came from mobile devices. (source)
• Movie ticketing service Fandango is getting close with 40% of their traffic on mobile. (source)
• Facebook is also on it’s way with 33% of total traffic on mobile. (source)

NOV

• Adult mobile users who have downloaded an app to their phone nearly doubled in the past two years – rising from 22% in September 2009 to 38% in August 2011. (source)
• The average iOS device owner will download 83 apps in 2011 vs. 51 in 2010, a 61% increase year over year. (source)
• A US/UK study found that the average smartphone user adds just 2.5 new apps per month. (source)
• In March 2011, 26% of all apps downloaded were opened only once and then never used again. 26% were used 11 times or more. Of the remaining 48% of apps: 13% are opened only twice, 9% are opened only three times, all the way to 2% that are opened 10 times and never again. (source)
• 38% 
iOS & Android users stick with an app after one month. 14% 
iOS & Android users stick with an app after six months. After 12 months, only 4% are left. (source)
• Roughly half (51%) of mobile owners use a handful of apps at least once a week, while 17% report using no apps on a regular basis. Almost a third (31%) could be called app “power users” in that they use 6 or more. (source)
• The top 10 Android apps account for 43% of all the time spent by Android consumers on mobile apps. The top 50 apps account for 61% of all time spent. (source)

OCT

• From the second quarter of 2010 to the second quarter of 2011, mobile data traffic more than doubled. (source)
• Research suggests that the industry will go from six billion connections today to more than 12 billion by 2020. (source)
• In North America, high-end smartphones generate twice the traffic of comparable smartphones in Asia and Europe. (source)
• Almost half of UK internet users are going online via mobile phone data connections in UK. (source)
• While 71% of 16 to 24-year-old who went online in the UK said they used mobile broadband, just 8% of UK internet users aged over 65 made use of mobile broadband. (source)
• The mobile media user population in the US (those who browse the mobile web, access applications, or download content) grew 19 percent in the past year to more than 116 million people at the end of August 2011. (source)
• 72.2 million Americans accessed social networking sites or blogs on their mobile device in August 2011, an increase of 37 percent in the past year. (source)
• Nearly 40 million US mobile users, more than half of the mobile social media audience, accesssocial networking sites or blogs almost every day. (source)

OCT

• In 2009, 1% of Dungarees’ (an apparel retailer) web traffic was from smartphones. In 2010 it grew to 4% and this year it’s at 8%. (source)
• JetBlue Airways’ smartphone Web traffic is at 10%. Crutchfield’s is at 12%. And Fandango’s is at a hefty 40%. (source)
• The increase in shopping on Gap’s mobile site is one of the major reasons why the site tripled its online conversions in the last year. (source)
• Blue Nile sold a diamond ring that cost more than $300,000 via mobile and sees large jewelry purchases, running from a few thousand to tens of thousands of dollars, via smartphones happen quite frequently. (source)
• eBay is on its way to process around $4 billion in mobile sales in 2011, double the number it logged last year. Three purchases are made through eBay’s mobile applications every second. 2,600 vehicles are purchased through eBay’s core iPhone apps every week. 13 pieces of clothing, shoes or accessories are sold every minute through eBay’s mobile apps. (source)
• It’s not just buyers using eBay’s apps. As of September 2011, eBay sellers are listing over 700,000 new items through their mobile applications on a weekly basis. (source)

SEP

• Slightly more Americans (36.4%) use their mobile browser than access applications (34.4%). (source)
• More than 700,000 people use the Financial Times’ Web-based mobile application to access news and other content, making it more popular than the version sold in Apple’s App Store. (source)
• Facebook’s top mobile client is m.facebook.com (Facebook’s mobile Web site) with 18% of total new Facebook posts. Android, iPhone, and Blackberry are next each with about 4% of total new Facebook posts. (source)
• Twitter’s top mobile client is m.twitter.com (Twitter’s mobile Web site) with 14% of total unique users. SMS is next with 8% of total unique users. Then Twitter for iPhone (8%) followed by Twitter for Blackberry (7%). (source)

SEP

• Worldwide mobile data traffic is due to increase 26-fold to 75 exabytes annually. That’s the equivalent of 75 times the amount of global Internet IP data in the year 2000. (source)
• Mobile data traffic is now outpacing fixed broadband traffic. Last year, it grew 4.2 times as fast. (source)
• By 2015 more U.S. Internet users will access the Internet through mobile devices than through PCs or other wireline devices. (source)
• 25% of U.S. smartphone owners, about 22 million Americans, say that they mostly go online using their phone, rather than with a computer. (source)
• The average U.S. mobile data user will be consuming 675MB of data per month by the end of this year. (source)
• Almost half of UK internet users are going online via mobile phone data connections. (source)
• 22-25% of US and UK mobile Internet browsers never or infrequently use the desktop Internet. (source)
• More than 50% of Asian and African mobile internet users as well as more than 20% of users in developed markets, such as the UK and US do not use the internet on a PC. (source)
• In India 49% of people who are using the mobile Internet either never, or infrequently, access the Internet from a computer. (source)

JUL

• Games continue to be the most popular smartphone app category. (source)
• 93% of app downloaders are willing to pay for the games they play. In contrast, 76% of downloaders are willing to pay for news apps. (source)
• The average mobile gamer plays an average of 7.8 hours a month. (source)
• Those with iPhones tend to play around 14.7 hours each month while those with Android smartphones play around 9.3 hours per month. (source)
• Apple’s iOS is the most popular gaming platform on the planet. There are more than 100,000 game and entertainment titles in the App Store. (source)
• In just 9 months Apple has over 50 million Game Center users. To put that into perspective Xbox Live has been around for about eight years and they have around 30 million users. (source)

JUN

• After the Verizon iPhone launched in the U.S., Android suffered its first quarterly decline. Apple’s share of the U.S. smartphone market gained 12.3% to 29.5% in the March quarter while Android’s share in the U.S. fell from 52.4% to 49.5% — its first sequential loss in any region of the world since early 2009. (source)
• Mobile devices, led by the iPad and Android phones and tablets, have overtaken computers on Wi-Fi networks. In 2010, Windows and Mac OS X accounted for 64% of devices that accessed Wi-Fi networks, while iOS accounted for 32% and Android was just 1%. A year later, iOS and Android now represent 58% of Wi-Fi devices, while Windows and Mac OS X account for 36%. (source)
• The iPhone was the most popular device on Wi-Fi networks, with a 32% share. Android accounted for 11% of devices, equal to the iPod touch alone. (source)
• The iPad represents 89% of tablet traffic across all markets. In the US the figure is 97%. Apple has sold roughly 25 million iPads to date globally. (source)
• January to March 2011, 37% of mobile subscribers in the US used Apps, and 39% used a mobile browser. (source)

APR

• In December 2009, Morgan Stanley Research released their Mobile Internet Report that boldly predicted global shipments of smartphones would surpass global shipments of desktops, notebooks, and laptops sometime in 2012. That transition happened almost two years early as global shipments of smartphones and tablets surpassed shipments of desktop PCs and notebooks in Q42010. This gap is expected to increase over the next few years. (source)
• Home usage of the PC is down 20% since 2008. As people use smartphones for more simple computing tasks like web surfing, they use traditional PCs less. (source)
• Worldwide PC shipments fell 3.2% during the first quarter of 2011 the first year-over-year quarterly decline since the end of the Great Recession. In the U.S. shipments were down 10% in the quarter. Media tablets are capturing a portion of the consumer spending that previously went toward traditional computers. (source)
• 22-25% of US and UK mobile Internet browsers never or infrequently use the desktop Internet. (source)
• In about a month or so, Apple’s iPhone 4 will become the most popular camera used to take pictures uploaded to Flickr. The current most popular camera the Nikon D90 is nearly three years old. The iPhone 4 is not even a year old. (source)

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