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Use of the Internet and Smartphones is No Longer on the Rise in America (qz.com)
For years, the number of Americans who have reported using the internet, social media, and smartphones has been on a meteoric rise. But that rate has slowed to a near-stall. From a report: New data published this week by the Pew Research Center show that, since 2016, that number has plateaued, indicating those technologies have reached a saturation point among many groups of people. The percentage of Americans using smartphones (77%), the internet (88% to 89%), and social media (69%) has remained virtually unchanged during the last two years. "Put simply, in some instances there just aren't many non-users left," the report states.
More than 90% of adults younger than 50 report they use the internet or own a smartphone. This number squares with some of the trends noticed earlier this year by Gartner, a global research firm. The fourth quarter of 2017 marked the first time since 2004 that the market for smartphones declined globally compared to the prior year. People are less frequently buying new phones.
More than 90% of adults younger than 50 report they use the internet or own a smartphone. This number squares with some of the trends noticed earlier this year by Gartner, a global research firm. The fourth quarter of 2017 marked the first time since 2004 that the market for smartphones declined globally compared to the prior year. People are less frequently buying new phones.
It's pretty simple. We won't see any improvement in smart phone and computer usage without advances in technology that cater to the needs of an increasingly illiterate or sub-literate population.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
I have never used a smartphone OR the Internet and I never plan to.
Sell your stocks in companies that specialize in taking cat photos now!
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Multicast is all but dead due to the on-demand culture... multicast really only works well if you have a bunch of people all watching the same thing at the same time. Or at the very least caching it at the same time. That doesn't really happen very much in real life.
Someone had to do it.
was set too low.
I'm still rocking a 2 core AMD laptop from 7 or 8 years ago.
I haven't bought a new phone in about 8 years (the cellular company gave me a free one when the last one I purchased wasn't supported any longer)
My needs are pretty simple, my NAS is about 5 years old and my ATOM server (mail/web/DB) is about 9 years old.
Surely we can get more growth by having internet connected tablets for pets or something.
Sure. All for it. First, get rid of Betsy deVos and get someone in there that believes in quality public education for all, not just rich white christian kids.
Many of the channels (like AMC) on Slingtv.com and plutotv.com are "multicast". You cannot rewind or fastforward the channel. Everyone is seeing the same second at the same time (live)
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Maybe you should point out where we've had quality public education before instead of blaming someone for wanting to try something different. I bet you weren't complaining about the shitty public schools before she came along, and if you don't believe they were shitty then there's no helping you.
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I got a smartphone for my mom. She was the only person on the planet who didn't have one.
I didn't know that I had a brother! Have mom give me a call.
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But that same reasoning holds that we can afford massive tax cuts for the wealthiest of its citizen. These tax cuts are limiting our ability to deal with future crises.
The U.S. public education system has been run by leftists for generations, and suddenly the reason that it sucks is because Trump came along in the past 2 years? Give me a break.
Listen, buddy: At one point in my life, public schools having failed *me* personally, I thought charter schools/private schools were a good idea. I went to a private school 4th through 8th grade and benefitted thereby. But public schools in this country, *especially* for the Poor, and *especially* for poor Minorities, already is shit, and she wants to take more money away from them, to give to 'vouchers', that only really middle-class and rich families will be able to take advantage of? The vouchers alone won't cover tuition for any of these 'charter schools', so Poor families will not benefit -- mostly poor black families, but also other minorities, and *also* poor white families, but that last is the smallest group that will be affected. Meanwhile blacks and other minorities are hamstrung socially and economically by poor educational opportunities, which is the leading reason they're involved in gangs and crime more often than any other groups. So DeVos, through her shit policies and shit ideas, makes a bad situation worse, creating an ever-widening gap between The Poor and everyone else, one they'll never likely be able to cross. DeVos also is screwing over college students through things like removing protections against predatory lending and collection practicies for student loans. It all smacks of a Dominionist-like agenda, which fits in perfectly with her white 'Christian' background. Add to that her total lack of any relevant career background in education and you start to see that she was appointed to enact an agenda, not help fix and enhance public education in this country, just 'privatize' it, and make it even more accessible for upper-middle-class and rich people through giving them government money they really don't need, meanwhile screwing over families that rely on public schools.
I don't exist to do 40 hours of research or even 8 hours or 1 hour of research for random jackasses on the Internet, so go do you own research -- assuming YOU are not just a TROLL or a Trump supporter trying to screw me up; go look at things yourself with an open mind if you really care at all.
And now if you're just another damned troll, you're fapping furiously because you managed to get me to waste 10 minutes of my life explaining something to you that you don't even give a shit about. Nice job.