Nearly a Billion Smart Devices Last Year, 2 Billion By 2016

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

The International Data Corporation out of Framingham, Massachusetts just released information on smart connected devices for last year along with predicted growth patterns for them through to 2016 (four years). ‘Smart connected’ means any device capable of running applications and of connecting to the Internet. This includes smart phones, tablets, and other portable computing items.

In 2011, says IDC, more than 916 million units were shipped, making for about $489 billion in sales for the year. These numbers are derived from three other IDC quarterly surveys conducted, including the Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker, Mobile Phone Tracker, and Media Tablet Tracker.

With those strong numbers, IDC expects unit shipments to continue growing, topping 1.1 billion next year and hitting 1.84 billion units – nearly two billion – by 2016. That’s double 2011′s numbers. That’s a lot of smart phones, folks.

Interestingly, IDC can extrapolate growth rates for individual device types, giving numbers for how fast Apple, Android, and Windows will grow in these genres.

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This website is now iPhone mobile friendly

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

It’s been a pet-project of mine for some time — making http://JamesBurchill.com into an iPhone mobile friendly platform. The problem was always how to make the site smart enough so it would display properly on a regular computer and render differently when accessed in mobile mode on an iPhone. Well, problem solved…

So if you’re an iPhone (or iPod/iPad) user then I’d encourage you to drop by my website http://JamesBurchill.com and see for yourself. The new interface ONLY appears when accessed from your mobile device and the look is pure “apple” all the way. Pretty darned cool … if I do say so myself :-)

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