iPhone, SchmiPhone: Only One in Five Americans Using Smartphones
Living in San Francisco and writing about Silicon Valley, it's easy to forget that not everyone in the country is obsessed with spanking new technologies, but a new Nielsen report on smartphone adoption underscores that point: as of right now, just 21 percent of American wireless subscribers are using an iPhone, Blackberry, Droid, or other smartphone. That's changing quickly. At the end of 2008, just 14 percent of wireless subscribers in the U.S. were using smartphones; Nielsen anticipates that by some time next year, that figure will jump to north of 50 percent, given that 45 percent of respondents to one of its surveys said their next phone will be a smartphone. (This assumes that those respondents are unlike my mom and dad, who've
29 March 2010•1 min read
