{"id":178468,"date":"2016-09-05T17:08:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T15:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=178468"},"modified":"2016-09-05T17:10:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T15:10:58","slug":"smartphone-apps-are-dominating-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/178468-smartphone-apps-are-dominating-the-internet.html","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone apps are dominating the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smartphone apps reached a milestone in July, accounting for over half the time Americans spend online.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comscore.com\/Insights\/Blog\/Smartphone-Apps-Are-Now-50-of-All-US-Digital-Media-Time-Spent\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>ComScore<\/strong><\/a>, the amount of time Americans spend online in apps has risen by 41% over the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The smartphone app has been the most important access vehicle to the Internet for some time, growing its share to a point where it now eclipses all other digital media platforms combined,&#8221; stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the near term, smartphone apps are likely to grow their share of digital beyond the 50% mark, but desktop and tablets will maintain critical roles in consumers\u2019 online consumption.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on apps<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/177463-the-secure-messaging-app-that-is-better-than-whatsapp.html\">The secure messaging app that is better than WhatsApp<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/177471-amazon-and-pandora-close-to-launching-apple-music-rivals.html\">Amazon and Pandora close to launching Apple Music rivals<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smartphone apps reached a milestone in July, accounting for over half the time Americans spend online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":165018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[36,4036],"class_list":["post-178468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","category-software","tag-active","tag-apps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178470,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178468\/revisions\/178470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}