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    "title" : "Trends on Tuesday: Smartphone and Tablet Adoption Grows While Other Digital Devices Slump |Digital.gov",
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    {"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Smartphone and Tablet Adoption Grows While Other Digital Devices Slump","summary" : "Pew released a recent report tracking trends in digital device ownership and found smartphones and tablets have continued to grow in recent years, while other devices have stalled.","date" : "2015-11-17T10:00:49-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
        
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      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2015/11/2015-11-17-trends-on-tuesday-smartphone-and-tablet-adoption-grows-while-other-digital-devices-slump.md","slug" : "trends-on-tuesday-smartphone-and-tablet-adoption-grows-while-other-digital-devices-slump","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/11/17/trends-on-tuesday-smartphone-and-tablet-adoption-grows-while-other-digital-devices-slump/","content" :"\u003cp\u003ePew released a \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/10/29/technology-device-ownership-2015/\"\u003erecent report tracking trends in digital device ownership\u003c/a\u003e and found smartphones and tablets have continued to grow in recent years, while other devices have stalled.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2015/03/600-x-400-Mobile-devices-scanrail-iStock-Thinkstock-ThinkstockPhotos-507329083.jpg\"\n    alt=\"Mobile devices\"/\u003e\u003cp\u003escanrail/iStock/Thinkstock\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe big headlines from the report are:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCell phones are now in the hands of more than 92% of U.S. adults, although this trend started to flatten over the past 3 years. That elusive final 8% of U.S. adults might take a while to adopt (or die off, as adults over 65 were the smallest percentage of smartphone users at just 30% of that population, while 78% of them have a cell phone of some sort).\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSmartphones are owned by 68% of the population and that percentage continues to grow at a high rate.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDesktop and laptop computer ownership over the past decade has remained pretty flat, with little to no growth.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTablet computers have grown to 45% adoption, although in the past year that growth has slowed substantially. Tablet ownership is greater among those who have high incomes (51% of people with an income of $50,000 – $74,999 own tablets, and that rate is 67% for people who earn $75,000+) as well as those who have completed higher education (62%).\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfter surging in the 00’s, MP3 player growth has gone flat of the past 6 years.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhile \u003ca href=\"https://digital.gov/2015/09/01/trends-on-tuesday-mobile-messaging-and-social-app-research-released/\"\u003egames remain wildly popular\u003c/a\u003e on mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, the home gaming console market and portable gaming market has remained flat or lost a few percentage points of users.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eE-book readers, after growing since 2009, hit their peak in 2013 and have since declined.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost of these trends can be attributed to smartphones and tablets becoming more powerful, with more varied and high-quality app experiences, which are able to serve many uses without compromising on quality native device experiences. This affects everything from e-books to MP3 players to gaming consoles. With the \u003ca href=\"https://digital.gov/2014/11/04/trends-on-tuesday-phablets-to-top-tablets-in-2015/\"\u003egrowth of phablets, too\u003c/a\u003e, smartphones are continuing to grow and are likely cannibalizing some of the potential tablet growth.\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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