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How do users hold their mobile devices? This article over at UX matters has some really interesting findings but still leaves a lot of questions unanswered.  By the time we completely understand how people hold mobile devices, we’ll probably have moved on to devices we don’t have to hold.

The data from this study is public so you can play with it in a Google Doc or Excel. Pretty neat.

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The graph shows the dramatic shift away from Windows-powered Intel machines (Wintel) in the past few years. Apple drove a wedge into the Wintel monopoly, but it’s Google’s Android OS that’s really eating Microsoft’s lunch. Since Q4 2010, combined shipments of tablets and smartphones have exceeded the number of PCs shipped, Meeker reports, and that trend shows no sign of reversing. Other tidbits: Meeker’s data show 2.4 billion Internet users worldwide, a number that’s still growing eight percent yearly. There are 1.1 billion smartphone subscribers worldwide — but that’s still just 17 percent of the global cellphone market. 29 percent of adults in the U.S. now own either a tablet or an e-reader. Mobile devices now account for 13 percent of worldwide Internet traffic, up from 4 percent in 2010. Mobile app and advertising revenue has grown at an annual rate of 129 percent since 2008, and now tops $19 billion. Mobile traffic app Waze has been adding users faster than all GPS makers combined have sold personal navigation units, and it’s been that way since the beginning of 2012. (via Mary Meeker releases stunning data on the state of the Internet | VentureBeat)
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The graph shows the dramatic shift away from Windows-powered Intel machines (Wintel) in the past few years. Apple drove a wedge into the Wintel monopoly, but it’s Google’s Android OS that’s really eating Microsoft’s lunch. Since Q4 2010, combined shipments of tablets and smartphones have exceeded the number of PCs shipped, Meeker reports, and that trend shows no sign of reversing.

Other tidbits:

  • Meeker’s data show 2.4 billion Internet users worldwide, a number that’s still growing eight percent yearly.
  • There are 1.1 billion smartphone subscribers worldwide — but that’s still just 17 percent of the global cellphone market.
  • 29 percent of adults in the U.S. now own either a tablet or an e-reader.
  • Mobile devices now account for 13 percent of worldwide Internet traffic, up from 4 percent in 2010.
  • Mobile app and advertising revenue has grown at an annual rate of 129 percent since 2008, and now tops $19 billion.
  • Mobile traffic app Waze has been adding users faster than all GPS makers combined have sold personal navigation units, and it’s been that way since the beginning of 2012.

(via Mary Meeker releases stunning data on the state of the Internet | VentureBeat)

Source: venturebeat.com

When it comes to mobile apps, Gutmans sides with the likes of JavaScript creator Brendan Eich in a firmly held belief that the web and web languages will eventually catch up and win out over native stacks. But he hinted PHP and Zend will be providing client-side app-enabling tools. Gutmans declined to comment further, saying he would only announce the full details at Zend’s conference in late October. However, it sounds like PHP will have a mobile app story of some sort, in spite of being the web’s predominant server-side language. What that looks like and how it will be distributed is still mysterious. But a strong mobile story, says Gutmans, will only help PHP continue to grow. (via Exclusive: PHP, the web’s most popular programming language, is coming to mobile | VentureBeat)
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When it comes to mobile apps, Gutmans sides with the likes of JavaScript creator Brendan Eich in a firmly held belief that the web and web languages will eventually catch up and win out over native stacks.

But he hinted PHP and Zend will be providing client-side app-enabling tools. Gutmans declined to comment further, saying he would only announce the full details at Zend’s conference in late October. However, it sounds like PHP will have a mobile app story of some sort, in spite of being the web’s predominant server-side language.

What that looks like and how it will be distributed is still mysterious. But a strong mobile story, says Gutmans, will only help PHP continue to grow. (via Exclusive: PHP, the web’s most popular programming language, is coming to mobile | VentureBeat)

Source: venturebeat.com

Your cellphone knows where you’ve been. And new research shows it can take a pretty good guess at where you’re going next. A team of British researchers has developed an algorithm that uses tracking data on people’s phones to predict where they’ll be in 24 hours. The average error: just 20 meters. (via Cellphone tracking: What happens when our smartphones can predict our every move?)
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Your cellphone knows where you’ve been. And new research shows it can take a pretty good guess at where you’re going next.

A team of British researchers has developed an algorithm that uses tracking data on people’s phones to predict where they’ll be in 24 hours. The average error: just 20 meters. (via Cellphone tracking: What happens when our smartphones can predict our every move?)

Source: Slate

While many apps have grown bigger and more encompassing over the years, others have popped up to fill the single-service, hyper-focused holes. While these types of apps never disappeared, they’ve become more and more necessary as our devices—and our ideas—have grown more fragmented. For me, I find myself using these nearly featureless apps more often when I’m on my iPhone and iPad. I want something that opens immediately and starts doing what it’s supposed to do without any additional taps. (via Why I Prefer the Featureless App) My constant battle with clients. Do one thing and do it well.
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While many apps have grown bigger and more encompassing over the years, others have popped up to fill the single-service, hyper-focused holes. While these types of apps never disappeared, they’ve become more and more necessary as our devices—and our ideas—have grown more fragmented.

For me, I find myself using these nearly featureless apps more often when I’m on my iPhone and iPad. I want something that opens immediately and starts doing what it’s supposed to do without any additional taps. (via Why I Prefer the Featureless App)

My constant battle with clients. Do one thing and do it well.

Source: Lifehacker