Health-related app downloads grew sharply as smartphone ownership expanded.

Evidence

In 2012 Pew Research reported that 53 percent of Americans owned smartphones and, of those, 20 percent had downloaded at least one health-related app. By 2015, a national survey found that 71 percent of Americans owned a smartphone or other wireless device and, of those, 32 percent had downloaded at least one health-related app, fulfilling “the public’s desire for ‘anywhere, anytime’ monitoring, diagnosis, and treatment.” — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 2312

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Smartphones exploded into an app economy reshaping major industries — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 279; Pharmaceutical firms and employers embraced health apps as cost-saving tools. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 2312

Broader Connections

• Smartphones exploded into an app economy reshaping major industries #expands (0.85) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 279
• Pharmaceutical firms and employers embraced health apps as cost-saving tools. #expands (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 2312