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Interesting facts, but here's one I didn't understand: "By 2012, there will be 2.3 billion mobile devices in use, the equivalent of 70% of the world’s populati
by meric 15y ago
Interesting facts, but here's one I didn't understand:
"By 2012, there will be 2.3 billion mobile devices in use, the equivalent of 70% of the world’s population."
What does that mean? Something bad will happen between now and beginning of January? Virus infecting drones (mobile devices), to terminate 3.5 billion people, so that 2.3 billion = 0.7 * world population in 2012, for example?
- amerine 15y agoI assume they mean 70% of the mobile phone market.
- mseebach 15y agoDoesn't sound right. Mobile devices accounts for 70% of mobile phone market?
- kolinko 15y agoactually, the current world population estimate is 7 billion, not 6.
- meric 15y agoI just did http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=world+population&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=... and took the first number from the top... Looking back it was actually the number from 2009.
- joelhaasnoot 15y agoThat statistic is weird however you might want to interpret it because it in no way accounts for people having multiple phones, which is in no way rare.
- wanorris 15y agoI'm sure it's not rare as in unheard of, but to have any significant impact on the number of people carrying 2.3 billion devices, there would need to be hundreds of millions of people with multiple phones. I have no idea of the statistics, but I wouldn't think it would be anywhere near that common.
- gojomo 15y agoIf you click-scroll to the factoid to that stat's left, they seem to be comparing mobile with desktops. So they may mean, "70% of the world's population of internet users/devices", which is plausible.