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    "title" : "Trends on Tuesday: U.S. Smartphone Ownership Increases |Digital.gov",
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    {"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: U.S. Smartphone Ownership Increases","summary" : "159.8 million people in the U.S. over the age of 13 owned smartphones during the three months ending in January, up 7 percent since October, according to ComScore. That is a 66.8 percent mobile market penetration, meaning two thirds of people in the country","date" : "2014-04-01T13:31:07-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
        
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      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2014/04/2014-04-01-trends-on-tuesday-u-s-smartphone-ownership-increases.md","slug" : "trends-on-tuesday-u-s-smartphone-ownership-increases","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2014/04/01/trends-on-tuesday-u-s-smartphone-ownership-increases/","content" :"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2014/03/smartphones-600-x-400.jpg\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2014/04/smartphones-250-x-167.jpg\"\n    alt=\"An illustration of a stack of smart cell phones\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\u003c/a\u003e159.8 million people in the U.S. over the age of 13 owned smartphones during the three months ending in January, up 7 percent since October, \u003ca href=\"http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2014/3/comScore_Reports_January_2014_US_Smartphone_Subscriber_Market_Share\"\u003eaccording to ComScore\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is a 66.8 percent mobile market penetration, meaning two thirds of people in the country owned a smartphone at the beginning of this year. Comscore also finds Apple continues to sell the most devices, while Android is the top mobile platform.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmartphone adoption will continue to grow. Earlier this year, Gartner reported \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2014/02/11/trends-on-tuesday-1-billion-smartphones-shipped-in-2013/\" title=\"Trends on Tuesday: 1 Billion Smartphones Shipped in 2013\"\u003ethat smartphones were the top shipping device worldwide\u003c/a\u003e and last week they predicted that smartphones would continue to be the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mobilemarketingwatch.com/gartner-mobile-phones-now-the-biggest-segment-of-the-overall-device-market-40589/\"\u003e top selling device in 2014\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith the majority of people in the U.S. owning smartphones, it is imperative that agencies have a \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2013/09/30/mobile-first/\"\u003emobile first strategy\u003c/a\u003e. Our \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/resources/mobile-application-development-program/\" title=\"Mobile Application Development Program\"\u003eMobile Application Development Program\u003c/a\u003e can help agencies strategize for the mobile present and future.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is your agency doing to properly serve the mobile population? Let us know in the comments!\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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