Comments on: Surprise! Over-55 crowd adopting smartphones fastest

By: Yukiko Yoda

Yukiko Yoda — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:20:48 +0000

Surprise! Over-55 crowd adopting smartphones fastest http://t.co/iuajF1xS

By: Leo Ferraro

Leo Ferraro — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:42:32 +0000

“half the total U.S. population will own a smartphone by end of 2011″
http://t.co/rXHXROog
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By: Tom Tunguz

Tom Tunguz — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 01:56:18 +0000

This headline is completely misleading. The rate of change of smart phone adoption in the 55 to 65 group is the fastest, but not the rate of adoption.

By: BevL

BevL — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:46:32 +0000

Hmmm… I wonder what the breakdown is by phone type or even OS. Could there be a correlation between the release of the larger screen Android phones and the increase of smartphone sales in the upper age groups? For me, at almost 55, the answer is yes. I couldn’t care less about smartphones until the screens got bigger. Really you’d think that Apple and Nokia might have noticed that we Boomers are getting old(er).

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:20:25 +0000

Now *that* is a great idea! Hope these phone makers and carriers are listening! :)

By: MilkMushMeat

MilkMushMeat — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:53:07 +0000

As a 52 year-old myself who loves the smartphone tech but abhors the babysitting of said devices, I think that phone manufactures could target the silvering crowd by pre-installing applications that we’d actually use. Instead of ‘Angry Birds’ pre-install ‘Audible’ and ‘Amazon Reader’ and ‘Weatherbug’ -Cheers!-