The Rise of Mobile Devices

By Richard Horowitz

1999: NTT Docomo released the first widely-received services of smartphones in Japan.

2007: Apple released the iPhone & iOS, introducing multi-touch functionality to the mass market.

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.

2010: Microsoft restructured their Windows Mobile business with the Windows Phone 7.

2015: Google says more internet searches now on mobile than on desktop.

Most Popular Apps…

With an astonishing 118,023,000 average unique users in 2014, Facebook was the most popular application.

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.

Operating System

Dominance

• 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%.