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2012

1992

2007

2013

Motorola DynaTAC 800X, “The Brick”, becomes the first cell phone to be

commercially sold.

Research in Motion (RIM) launches the first BlackBerry considered to be a smartphone

with with email support, web browser support, QWERTY keyboard and thumb track-wheel.

Android makes up 76% of the mobile marketApple makes up 18% of the mobile market

The Internet is born.Tim Berners-Lee launches

the first website

Apple announces their first iPhone and revolutionizes the

world of smartphones.

Mobile web traffic accounts for 17.4% of web visits globallyGoogle launches Product Listing Ads (PLAs) on mobile devices

Total Android app downloads surpasses Apple

1994

2008

Today

1999

2010

Beyond

IBM introduces the IBM Simon, the first PDA and smartphone known as

the “G.I. Joe Walkie Talkie”.

The race between Apple and Android officially begins.

Android 1.0 launches on the HTC Dream as Apple introduces the Apple App Store.

As of Jan 2014, there were 861,379,152 websites There will be more mobile devices on Earth than people

“Internet in Your Pocket” NTT DoCoMo launches i-mode and for the first time ever

mobile devices have access to the mobile web.

Ethan Marcotte coins the term “Responsive Web Design” The word “App” becomes the Word of the Year

Android’s market share officially surpasses BlackBerry

Make Everything Smart: The Age of Smart Wearable Devices

Display glasses, contact lens, smartwatches, homes and more to come.

“The Year for Responsive Web Design”

The Mobile WebThen, Now and The Future

76%

17.4%

18%

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