Construction Mobile Apps & Their Marketplace Impact | Construction Economist

The growth of the mobile device market over the last five years is based off of one main principal: the faster you can transmit information, no matter where you are, the quicker things gets done – professionally, socially and personally. It is no surprise that estimates predict 50% of Americans to own a smartphone by the end of this year and one in five Americans will own a tablet device by 2015. By doing our own survey of construction industry professionals in our social network, from estimators to homebuilders, we found that most do not own a tablet device and most use their mobile phones for calls, texts and email but nothing more. Many are starting to hear about application capabilities and software extending services to mobile devices, but like any new trend in technology, it all looks a little complicated and maybe not worth their time to learn it.

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