It’s not a surprise that mobile devices have been overtaking desktop ones, both in technology and usage, in the last few years. Up to 2013 the hours of desktop use, per day, in the USA, overtook mobile devices, and it was 2013 when they were both used exactly equally, and after then mobile devices overtook desktops, in their hours of usage. Even though TVs are still the most device, to watch media content, it’s usage is slowly going down year by year.
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Online games have become much more advanced in the last few years, too, in their graphics and audio advancements, but also the range of games available, on PCs, consoles and mobile devices, and the span many genres, including first-person shooters, strategies games, and massively multi-player online role-playing games (MMORPGs.) Many online games, especially MMORPGs, create their own communities, whilst other games, especially social games, integrate the players’ existing real-life communities. With apps now widely used, on mobile devices, it’s now easier, and cheaper, to play games which have been downloaded onto your device, as once downloaded then internet connection is not normally needed to play favourite games, from games for preschoolers, to zombie fight, and skilled driving games. There are also online casino games which have big jackpots, so you can play here on these sites, to see what they have to offer. Betway has a range of casino games, from roulette, blackjack, and slots, with welcome bonuses for new players.
There has been a growing popularity f using different digital device, using data from Global Web Index 2015. To search the internet 91% of this was done by PCs and laptops, 80% by smartphones, 47% by tablets, and 37% by games consoles. The emerging devices used to search the internet were smart TVs (34%,) smart watches (9%,) and smart wristbands (7%.) 80% of internet users owned a smartphone. Mobile apps account for 89% of media time, the most popular being social networking, email, and news apps. The most dominant tablets are still iPads, with Kindle Fire and Android now accounting for over 10% of all tablets. The time spent on Android devices was that 32% was on games, 18% on Facebook, both entertainment and utility take up 8% each, and browsers taking up 20% of the time. This recent information shows the increase in mobile devices and why this is so.