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Worldwide Smartphone Operating System growth rate from 2012–2016

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-5.4%

12.1% 10.9%9.5%

46.2%

Windows MobileAndroid BlackBerry OS iOS

Compound Annual Growth Rate

$Analyst firm Forrester Research predicts corporations will spend up to $17 billion creating mobile applications for their products and working with third-party services and companies that manage these applications.

$17 billion

Average users spend 63 working days per year on mobile devices.

By 2016, at least 50 % of enterprise email users will rely primarily on a browser, tablet, or mobile device instead of a desktop client.

Facebook 40 %

Gaming 28 %

Messaging 8 %

Internet usage12 %

Third-party apps 1 %Preloaded

apps 7 %Email 1 %

Time spent on mobile devices:

By 2015, there will be 1 mobile phone for every person on Earth.

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By 2015, mobile application development projects targeting smartphones and tablets will outnumber native PC projects by a ratio of 4 to 1.

2016: 200.0 billion downloads

2011: 30.1 billion downloads

Mobile App Downloads

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