Mobile Devices Will Account For 58% Of The Global Internet Device Installed Base By Year-End

We expect smartphones and tablets to account for 2 billion active devices by year-end. Once we tack on the PC installed base of 1.4 billion, the three main device types will combine for a global Internet device installed base of nearly 3.5 billion at the end of 2013. That translates to a 58% share of the global installed base for smartphones and tablets. (In 2012, smartphones and tablets were at 50% of active Internet devices.) We backed out our installed base figure from annual device shipment ...