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Smartphone penetration is up to 73% by now: http://www.nielsen.com/cn/en/press-room/2015/Nielsen-Chinese-Smartphone-Market-Now-Driven-by-Upgrading-EN.html http:
by shalmanese 11y ago
Smartphone penetration is up to 73% by now: http://www.nielsen.com/cn/en/press-room/2015/Nielsen-Chinese-Smartphone-Market-Now-Driven-by-Upgrading-EN.html http://www.nielsen.com/cn/en/press-room/2015/Nielsen-Chinese... and is above 85% in urban areas.
The article seems to take an American bias with this by looking only at desktop websites. China primarily consumes the internet through mobile apps and top tier mobile apps (Wechat, Baidu Maps, Didi Kuadi, Dianping, Ele.me) appear to be designed no more or less busy than comparable Western ones.
- gozur88 11y agoOdd. This one says 50.9%. That's quite a large difference. http://www.statista.com/statistics/257045/smartphone-user-penetration-in-china/ http://www.statista.com/statistics/257045/smartphone-user-pe...
- contingencies 11y agoMy current estimate (living here, and not just in urban locations, for 15 years) is >95% of adults (10-45) in urban areas, >75% rural. But the busy design thing far predates the smartphone, so that theory is moot in my mind. I concur with krang's comment: "Chinese sites are simply modeled after 90s and 2000s web sites". This does not imply it's not changing though .. smart TV and mobile apps look the same as you'd expect in the west.
- shalmanese 11y agoThe site estimated growth would be just 5% over 2 years whereas it was really 33%.