The smartphone is the computer!
Give Brian some sugar...
Who's been telling you since the start of this site that...the smartphone is the computer!
That the mobile web is the web.
That the smartphone is the primary access point to the global web and that the *app* is the primary access point to the smartphone!
Yep, me.
And not only am I continually proven correct, I am proven correct far sooner than I expect (really, my only failing).
Those who say that HTML5 or some sort will eclipse the app are wrong. Those that suggest that the smartphone is but one device revolving around the sun that is the PC are way wrong.
If there is a center to our digital universe, it is the smartphone. If there is a center to our smartphone, it is the app.
Analysts continue to not understand this. Execs at PC-world companies continue to not understand this.
For those that remain in denial, or are unable to shift -- as Google has so smartly done in embracing the iOS model, well, it's a hard rain gonna fall...
Via Gary Kim, a holiday reminder that smartphones are the new boss.
I sure hope you didn't get a PC for Christmas:
Flurry compares how daily interactive consumption has changed over the last 12 months between the web (both desktop and mobile web) and mobile native apps. For Internet consumption, we built a model using publicly available data from comScore and Alexa. For mobile application usage, we used Flurry Analytics data, now exceeding 500 million aggregated, anonymous use sessions per day across more than 85,000 applications. We estimate this accounts for approximately one third of all mobile application activity, which we scaled-up accordingly for this analysis.
Our analysis shows that, for the first time ever, daily time spent in mobile apps surpasses desktop and mobile web consumption. This stat is even more remarkable if you consider that it took less than three years for native mobile apps to achieve this level of usage, driven primarily by the popularity of iOS and Android platforms. Let’s take a look at the numbers.