Mobile app development is growing, can enterprises keep up?
Gartner predicts that by the end of 2017, market demand for mobile app development services will grow at least five times faster than internal IT organizations’ capacity to deliver them.
According to The 2015 U.S. Mobile App Report, mobile devices are consuming 60 per cent of internet usage in the US. Also, the average mobile phone user spends almost 23 days per year using a mobile phone!
Fun facts in the history of mobile
The world’s first mobile phone call was made on April 3, 1973. In addition to being a communication device, games were a famous application installed on mobile phones. The most famous mobile game, Snake, first appeared in 1997 on the Nokia 6610.
Today, usage patterns within the mobile apps segment are rapidly changing. According to a 2014 survey, mobile growth is moving into media. These numbers changed in 2015, where gaming decreases by 50 per cent, losing ground to other usage types. But statistics say that mobile apps are overshadowing mobile browsing activities.