The Mobile Software App Takeover

Marc andreessen wrote a column in The Wall Street Journal in September 2011 entitled, “Why Software Is Eating The World” (http://on.wsj. com/o6yIeE). Part of his reasoning was based on the sheer increase in smartphones: “Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago ... . In the next 10 years, we expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smart phones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.” In 2011, approximately 850,000 Android devices were activated every day, equating to roughly 310 million that year (www.pcmag.com/ article2/0,2817,2400782,00.asp). According to IDC, smartphones sales outpaced personal computer sales for the first time in the fourth quarter of 2010, with 100 million smartphones sold versus 92 million personal computers (http://engt.co/KiIWNG).