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The Rise of Mobile Devices
By Richard Horowitz
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1999: NTT Docomo released the first widely-received services of smartphones in Japan.
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2007: Apple released the iPhone & iOS, introducing multi-touch functionality to the mass market.
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2008: The HTC Dream is the first device to run the open source Android platform. This means that anyone has the ability to create applications for the device.
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2010: Microsoft restructured their Windows Mobile business with the Windows Phone 7.
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2015: Google says more internet searches now on mobile than on desktop.
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Most Popular Apps…
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With an astonishing 118,023,000 average unique users in 2014, Facebook was the most popular application.
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Google is the distributor of some of the most popular applications. More than half of the apps in the top ten list belong to Google, including: Google Search, YouTube, Google Play, Google Maps, Google Mail, and Google Plus.
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Operating System
Dominance
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• Android has dominated the operating system landscape over the last several years. !
• From 2009 to 2010, Android’s worldwide market share rose from 1.8% to 17.2%. By September 2014, Android’s global market share rose to 85%.