US Smartphone Penetration Leads Europe

It is common for observers to decry some way in which the United States lags other regions by some measure of Internet, broadband or wireless adoption. Sometimes that is accurate, but only for a time. In other areas, the U.S. adoption rate exceeds that of other regions. Smartphone devices and applications and Internet apps provide examples.

"It’s strange that the US, which was light years behind Europe, which itself was light years behind Japan, is now the hotbed of change where this innovation originates," an opinion piece in the Register argues.

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