The following 20 mobility statistics provide key data on general trends in mobility, enterprise mobility and consumer mobility.
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1. Mobile devices in use, including both phones and tablets, will grow from over 7.7 billion in 2014 to over 12.1 billion by 2018.
Source: The Radicati Group, Inc., February 2014
2. By 2018, more than 50% of all mobile apps will be created by business analysts without coding.
Source : Gartner Research
3. Time spent on mobile apps exceeded desktop web access for the first time in 2014.
Source: Marketing Charts
4. The average smart phone user has 41 apps installed on their phone.
Source: Localytics
5. 41% mobile users have turned to a competitor’s website after a bad mobile experience
Source: Google
6. 53% of total email opens occurred on a mobile phone or tablet in Q3 2014.
Source: Experian “Quarterly email benchmark report” (Q3 2014)
7. Some 33% of companies are planning to build enterprise app stores.
Source: Forrester - "The State of Enterprise Mobile Security", 2014
8. 64% of employees rarely use enterprise mobile apps because of poor user experience.
Source : Forrester
9. At work, 18% of employees use 3 devices and 22% use 2 – with more than 56% using 3 or more.
Source: Forrester
10. Peak hours for productivity and utility application usage are between 9 and 11 PM in working adults (25-54).
Source: Flurry
11. By end of 2015, most western economies will report a 50% increase in unfilled digital technology jobs, such as data scientists.
Source: Gartner - Top 10 Strategic Predictions for 2015 and Beyond: Digital Business Is Driving 'Big Change'
12. By 2017, 50% of consumer product investments will be redirected to customer experience innovations.
Source: Gartner - Top 10 Strategic Predictions for 2015 and Beyond: Digital Business Is Driving 'Big Change'
13. 65% of consumers download business-specific apps for more convenient access to information.
Source: Salesforce – 2014 Mobile Behavior Report
14. Consumers are spending 127 minutes on mobile apps per day.
Source: Mobile Devices to Surpass the Number of People on Earth – Infographic
15. More than 2 billion mobile users will make a mobile commerce transaction by the end of 2017.
Source: Juniper Research
16. 50% of consumers expect transactions to be easier on mobile than they are on a computer.
Source: IBM
17. 30% of mobile shoppers abandon a transaction if the experience is not optimized for mobile.
Source: MoPowered
18. 51% of shoppers research online and visit store to purchase while 17% visit store first, then purchase online.
Source: Ipsos Mediact
19. 32% of shoppers research online, visit store to try, then purchase online.
Source: Ipsos Mediact
20. Tablet visitors are nearly 3 times more likely to purchase than smart phone visitors.
Source: Adobe
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