By 2016, more U.S. consumers will access the...
By 2016, more U.S. consumers will access the Internet from a mobile device than from a PC, International Data Corp. said Monday. IDC said the U.S. leads the world in the trend away from PC-based Internet usage, followed by Western…
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Europe and Japan. About 240 million U.S. consumers currently access the Internet primarily through a PC, compared with 174 million who primarily do so through a mobile device, IDC said. By 2016, 265 million will primarily access it through a mobile device, while 225 million will do so through a PC, IDC said. “In the consumer world, mobile Internet usage is already beginning to displace PC usage, and the United States is leading this trend,” Karsten Weide, IDC’s Media & Entertainment program vice president, said in a news release. “There has been much talk about how the future of the Internet will be mobile first and PC second. In the United States, that future is now” (http://xrl.us/bnwo6x).