This increase coincides with a rise in smart phone ownership overall (from 35 percent of adults in 2011 to 46 percent in 2012, which means that the overall proportion of U.S. adults who get location-based information has almost doubled over that time period, from 23 percent in May 2011 to 41 percent in February 2012, Pew says.
Friday, May 11, 2012
Location-Based Services Used by 74% of Smart Phone Users
Some 74 percent of smart phone owners get real-time location-based information on their phones as of February 2012, up from 55 percent in May 2011, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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