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The shares of U.S. adults who say they use the internet, use social media, own a smartphone or own a tablet computer are all nearly identical to the shares who said so in 2016. The share who say they have broadband internet service at home currently stands at 65% – nearly identical to the 67% who said this in a survey conducted in summer 2015. And when it comes to desktop or laptop ownership, there has actually been a small dip in the overall numbers over the last two years – from 78% in 2016 to 73% today.
A contributing factor behind this slowing growth is that parts of the population have reached near-saturation levels of adoption of some technologies. Put simply, in some instances there just aren't many non-users left. For example, nine-in-ten or more adults younger than 50 say they go online or own a smartphone. And a similar share of those in higher-income households have laptops or desktops.
The poor, the rural, the elderly, and those who couldn't care less are the hold-outs.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Monday October 01 2018, @09:10PM (1 child)
I suppose we have got to the point where the things people want to do are done online and a tablet or smartphone is an easy way to access the things people want online.
In my experience, what most people want is an easy life, and they have no interest in how web things work, the just want to touch an icon on their phone and have it work.
It looks like the years of massive growth are over. Businesses sometimes assume growth will go on forever, but in the real world, there is a limit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @01:46PM
Can I maybe get some of it back offline, please? Also they seem to have forgotten that the universal interface is e-mail and not webforms.