{"id":262,"date":"2014-02-28T03:03:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T03:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visualizedigital.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2014-09-24T03:22:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T03:22:37","slug":"mobile-apps-overtake-pc-internet-usage-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visualizedigital.com\/interesting\/mobile-apps-overtake-pc-internet-usage-in-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile apps overtake PC Internet usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Americans used smartphone and tablet apps more than PCs to access the Internet last month &#8212; the first time that has ever happened.<\/h2>\n<p>Mobile devices accounted for 55% of Internet usage in the United States in January. Apps made up 47% of Internet traffic and 8% of traffic came from mobile browsers, according to data from comScore, cited Thursday by research firm Enders Analysis. PCs clocked in at 45%.<\/p>\n<p>Although total Internet usage on mobile devices has previously exceeded that on PCs, this is the first time it&#8217;s happened for app usage alone.<\/p>\n<p>The shift follows a freefall in PC sales, which suffered their worst decline in history last year.<\/p>\n<p>Smartphone adoption, meanwhile, increased 39%, acording to research firm IDC. This trend will likely continue thanks to improved user experience on mobile apps and the expansion of high-speed 4G access, said Andrew Lipsman, vice president of marketing and insights at comScore (<span class=\"inlink_chart\">SCOR<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>As of January, 55% of American adults had smartphones, while 42% owned tablets,according to the Pew Research Center.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2014\/02\/28\/technology\/mobile\/mobile-apps-internet\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans used smartphone and tablet apps more than PCs to access the Internet last month &#8212; the first time that has ever happened. Mobile devices accounted for 55% of Internet usage in the United States in January. Apps made up 47% of Internet traffic and 8% of traffic came from mobile browsers, according to data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualizedigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualizedigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualizedigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualizedigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualizedigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/visualizedigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualizedigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualizedigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualizedigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualizedigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}