{"id":797,"date":"2014-03-21T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appnet-dev.com\/resultsathand\/the-future-trends-of-mobile-devices\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T10:32:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T15:32:47","slug":"the-future-trends-of-mobile-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appnet-dev.com\/resultsathand\/the-future-trends-of-mobile-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"The i\u2019s Have It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1396 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/appnet-dev.com\/resultsathand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/US_Smartphone_user_share_by_OS.gif\" alt=\"US_Smartphone user share by OS eMarketer chart\" width=\"259\" height=\"260\">Market Penetration<\/h2>\n<p>Looking at device penetration, according to eMarketer as of 2014 the Android operating system leads with a 47.5% market penetration.<\/p>\n<p>This is followed by the iOS with a 39.5% market penetration, Blackberry 7.4%, Windows 5%, and other mobile devices at 0.6%.<\/p>\n<h3>Which Device Should You Choose<\/h3>\n<p>Does this mean your members or attendees will have the same mobile platform distribution? No!<\/p>\n<p>We build event management mobile apps for professional and trade associations that range from medical, education, professional, management, pharmaceutical, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Our client\u2019s members use a variety of devices and operating systems of their choosing, which can vary from group to group, but we have noticed ultimately our consumer\u2019s preferences were similar among each other and don\u2019t conform to the normal distribution.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1398 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/appnet-dev.com\/resultsathand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/MobilevsTabletchart-1024x706-1.png\" alt=\"R@H users Mobile vs Tablet chart\" width=\"640\" height=\"441\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1440004960899_88352\">Even though eMarketer shows that Android has the greatest market penetration, our aggregated data, gathered&nbsp;from a multitude of events, shows that your members prefer idevices. However, looking at our graph we can also see that&nbsp;there are still&nbsp;many Android users followed by Windows users and Blackberry users&nbsp;accessing our app. This doesn\u2019t mean you should limit your focus on Apple devices.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1440004960899_88353\">While we can\u2019t predict your members&#8217; preferred platform or devices, it is safe to say more is always better! Choose association apps that include multiple platforms for all of your users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we can\u2019t predict the device distribution of your members, we\u2019re often asked \u201cShould I launch an Android app or an i-device app?\u201d We say don\u2019t limit yourself! Launch association apps for all of your needs regardless of device type or OS, with Android, iOS, and HTML5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[16,17],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-associations","category-technology","tag-event-app-tips","tag-mobile"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appnet-dev.com\/resultsathand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appnet-dev.com\/resultsathand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appnet-dev.com\/resultsathand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appnet-dev.com\/resultsathand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appnet-dev.com\/resultsathand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/appnet-dev.com\/resultsathand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/appnet-dev.com\/resultsathand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appnet-dev.com\/resultsathand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appnet-dev.com\/resultsathand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appnet-dev.com\/resultsathand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appnet-dev.com\/resultsathand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}