https://jeux.wiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Smartphones_To_Smartwatches%3A_What_Americans_Actually_Own 2026-11-05T02:06:56Z Historique des versions pour cette page sur le wiki MediaWiki 1.46.0 https://jeux.wiki/index.php?title=Smartphones_To_Smartwatches:_What_Americans_Actually_Own&diff=14549&oldid=prev 2026-11-05T01:54:33Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw-interface=""> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="fr"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Version précédente</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Version du 5 novembre 2026 à 01:54</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Ligne 1 :</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Ligne 1 :</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Illustration: Quartz The tech gadgets most Americans own, according to Pew Research Center, say as much about daily routines as they do about the technology industry. The smartphone has moved from a luxury purchase to something close to universal. The desktop computer, written off repeatedly, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> [https://www.youtube.com/@GADGETSWATCH GADGETAmerican] </del>still sits in millions of homes. Smart speakers arrived fast, then settled. What people report owning gives a clearer picture of American life than any product launch does.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;What makes Pew's work useful is repetition. The organization asks U.S. adults similar questions year after year, which turns isolated figures into trend lines. A device that shows up in most households one year and holds there the next has become ordinary household equipment. A category that climbs quickly and then flattens tells a different story — about novelty fading, price resistance, or a market reaching everyone it was ever going to reach. This list covers the seven device categories Pew has tracked most consistently: smartphones, desktop and laptop computers, tablets, smart speakers, smart TVs and streaming devices, gaming consoles, and wearables such as smartwatches and fitness trackers.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>Each has a different adoption curve and a different job inside the house. For some, non-ownership is now the more unusual finding. Others split roughly down the middle, along the lines of age, household income, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> GADGETAmerican </del>and education that Pew's surveys flag again and again. Those gaps matter beyond the hardware itself. Pew's research on home broadband <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> [https://www.youtube.com/@GADGETSWATCH GADGETAmerican] </del>and on smartphone-dependent internet users shows that device ownership is unevenly distributed.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>The consequences fall hardest on lower-income households and older adults. A phone used as a substitute for a computer handles some tasks poorly, including job applications, school assignments, and certain government forms. None of this predicts what comes next. It describes where U.S. households stand now, based on what people report in surveys rather than on shipment estimates or marketing claims. Taken together, the seven categories below map how most American homes actually use technology day to day.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>Smartphones remain the most widely owned device Illustration: Quartz The smartphone is the most commonly owned device Pew Research Center tracks, held by the large majority of U.S. adults across nearly every demographic group. No other category in Pew's technology <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbR89KFWi7A&amp;t=13s </del>surveys<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">] </del>comes close to that level of saturation. Ownership climbed steadily after the first iPhone and early Android handsets reached the market in the late 2000s. What began as a product for early adopters and younger, higher-income buyers spread outward through Pew's survey years to older adults, lower-income households, and people without college degrees.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>The curve was steep for roughly a decade, then flattened near the top — the shape of a market that has already reached most of the people it can reach. Gaps persist, though they are narrower than they once were. Pew's surveys consistently show lower smartphone ownership among adults 65 and older, and among those in lower-income households. Rural Americans report somewhat lower ownership than urban and suburban residents, a pattern tied to differences in cellular coverage and broadband availability rather than to interest in the devices themselves.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Illustration: Quartz The tech gadgets most Americans own, according to Pew Research Center, say as much about daily routines as they do about the technology industry. The smartphone has moved from a luxury purchase to something close to universal. The desktop computer, written off repeatedly, still sits in millions of homes. Smart speakers arrived fast, then settled. What people report owning gives a clearer picture of American life than any product launch does.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;What makes Pew's work useful is repetition. The organization asks U.S. adults similar questions year after year, which turns isolated figures into trend lines. A device that shows up in most households one year and holds there the next has become ordinary household equipment. A category that climbs quickly and then flattens tells a different story — about novelty fading, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> [https://www.youtube.com/@GADGETUSAHUB GADGETAmerican] </ins>price resistance, or a market reaching everyone it was ever going to reach.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>This list covers the seven device categories Pew has tracked most consistently: smartphones, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> GADGETAmerican </ins>desktop and laptop computers, tablets, smart speakers, smart TVs and streaming devices, gaming consoles, and wearables such as smartwatches and fitness trackers. Each has a different adoption curve and a different job inside the house. For some, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> GADGETAmerican </ins>non-ownership is now the more unusual finding. Others split roughly down the middle, along the lines of age, household income, and education that Pew's surveys flag again and again.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>Those gaps matter beyond the hardware itself. Pew's research on home broadband and on smartphone-dependent internet users shows that device ownership is unevenly distributed. The consequences fall hardest on lower-income households and older adults. A phone used as a substitute for a computer handles some tasks poorly, including job applications, school assignments, and certain government forms. None of this predicts what comes next.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>It describes where U.S. households stand now, based on what people report in surveys rather than on shipment estimates or marketing claims. Taken together, the seven categories below map how most American homes actually use technology day to day. Smartphones remain the most widely owned device Illustration: Quartz The smartphone is the most commonly owned device Pew Research Center tracks, held by the large majority of U.S. adults across nearly every demographic group.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>No other category in Pew's technology surveys comes close to that level of saturation. Ownership climbed steadily after the first iPhone and early Android handsets reached the market in the late 2000s. What began as a product for early adopters and younger, higher-income buyers spread outward through Pew's survey years to older adults, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDi1co8uCGs&amp;t=3s </ins>lower-income<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">] </ins>households, and people without college degrees. The curve was steep for roughly a decade, then flattened near the top — the shape of a market that has already reached most of the people it can reach.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>Gaps persist, though they are narrower than they once were. Pew's surveys consistently show lower smartphone ownership among adults 65 and older, and among those in lower-income households. Rural Americans report somewhat lower ownership than urban and suburban residents, a pattern tied to differences in cellular coverage and broadband availability rather than to interest in the devices themselves.</div></td></tr> </table>

LWWJerrold https://jeux.wiki/index.php?title=Smartphones_To_Smartwatches:_What_Americans_Actually_Own&diff=12493&oldid=prev 2026-11-04T23:41:12Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw-interface=""> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="fr"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Version précédente</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Version du 4 novembre 2026 à 23:41</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Ligne 1 :</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Ligne 1 :</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Illustration: Quartz The tech gadgets most Americans own, according to Pew Research Center, say as much about daily routines as they do about the technology industry. The smartphone has moved from a luxury purchase to something close to universal. The desktop computer, written off repeatedly, still sits in millions of homes. Smart speakers arrived fast, then settled. What people report owning gives a clearer picture of American life than any product launch does.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;What makes Pew's work useful is repetition. The organization asks U.S. adults similar questions year after year, which turns isolated figures into trend lines. A device that shows up in most households one year and holds there the next has become ordinary household equipment. A category that climbs quickly and then flattens tells a different story — about novelty fading, price resistance, or a market reaching everyone it was ever going to reach.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQdUnBPWI0g&amp;t=2s youtube.com]</del>This list covers the seven device categories Pew has tracked most consistently: smartphones, desktop and laptop computers, tablets, smart speakers, smart TVs and streaming devices, gaming consoles, and wearables such as smartwatches and fitness trackers. Each has a different adoption curve and a different job inside the house. For some, non-ownership is now the more unusual finding. Others split roughly down the middle, along the lines of age, household income,  <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[https://www.youtube.com/@</del>GADGETAmerican <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">GADGETAmerican] </del>and education that Pew's surveys flag again and again.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>Those gaps matter beyond the hardware itself. Pew's research on home broadband and on smartphone-dependent internet users shows that device ownership is unevenly distributed. The consequences fall hardest on lower-income households and older adults. A phone used as a substitute for a computer handles some tasks poorly, including job applications, school assignments, and certain government forms. None of this predicts what comes next. It describes where U.S. households stand now, based on what people report in surveys rather than on shipment estimates or marketing claims.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>Taken together, the seven categories below map how most American homes actually use technology day to day. Smartphones remain the most widely owned device Illustration: Quartz The smartphone is the most commonly owned device Pew Research Center tracks, held by the large majority of U.S. adults across nearly every demographic group. No other category in Pew's technology surveys comes close to that level of saturation.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>Ownership climbed steadily after the first iPhone and early Android handsets reached the market in the late 2000s. What began as a product for early adopters and younger, higher-income buyers spread outward through Pew's survey years to older adults, lower-income households, and people without college degrees. The curve was steep for roughly a decade, then flattened near the top — the shape of a market that has already reached most of the people it can reach.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>Gaps persist, though they are narrower than they once were. Pew's surveys consistently show lower smartphone ownership among adults 65 and older, and among those in lower-income households. Rural Americans report somewhat lower ownership than urban and suburban residents, a pattern tied to differences in cellular coverage and broadband availability rather than to interest in the devices themselves.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Illustration: Quartz The tech gadgets most Americans own, according to Pew Research Center, say as much about daily routines as they do about the technology industry. The smartphone has moved from a luxury purchase to something close to universal. The desktop computer, written off repeatedly, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> [https://www.youtube.com/@GADGETSWATCH GADGETAmerican] </ins>still sits in millions of homes. Smart speakers arrived fast, then settled. What people report owning gives a clearer picture of American life than any product launch does.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;What makes Pew's work useful is repetition. The organization asks U.S. adults similar questions year after year, which turns isolated figures into trend lines. A device that shows up in most households one year and holds there the next has become ordinary household equipment. A category that climbs quickly and then flattens tells a different story — about novelty fading, price resistance, or a market reaching everyone it was ever going to reach. This list covers the seven device categories Pew has tracked most consistently: smartphones, desktop and laptop computers, tablets, smart speakers, smart TVs and streaming devices, gaming consoles, and wearables such as smartwatches and fitness trackers.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>Each has a different adoption curve and a different job inside the house. For some, non-ownership is now the more unusual finding. Others split roughly down the middle, along the lines of age, household income,  GADGETAmerican and education that Pew's surveys flag again and again. Those gaps matter beyond the hardware itself. Pew's research on home broadband <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> [https://www.youtube.com/@GADGETSWATCH GADGETAmerican] </ins>and on smartphone-dependent internet users shows that device ownership is unevenly distributed.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>The consequences fall hardest on lower-income households and older adults. A phone used as a substitute for a computer handles some tasks poorly, including job applications, school assignments, and certain government forms. None of this predicts what comes next. It describes where U.S. households stand now, based on what people report in surveys rather than on shipment estimates or marketing claims. Taken together, the seven categories below map how most American homes actually use technology day to day.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>Smartphones remain the most widely owned device Illustration: Quartz The smartphone is the most commonly owned device Pew Research Center tracks, held by the large majority of U.S. adults across nearly every demographic group. No other category in Pew's technology <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbR89KFWi7A&amp;t=13s </ins>surveys<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">] </ins>comes close to that level of saturation. Ownership climbed steadily after the first iPhone and early Android handsets reached the market in the late 2000s. What began as a product for early adopters and younger, higher-income buyers spread outward through Pew's survey years to older adults, lower-income households, and people without college degrees.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>The curve was steep for roughly a decade, then flattened near the top — the shape of a market that has already reached most of the people it can reach. Gaps persist, though they are narrower than they once were. Pew's surveys consistently show lower smartphone ownership among adults 65 and older, and among those in lower-income households. Rural Americans report somewhat lower ownership than urban and suburban residents, a pattern tied to differences in cellular coverage and broadband availability rather than to interest in the devices themselves.</div></td></tr> </table>

TinaWinter https://jeux.wiki/index.php?title=Smartphones_To_Smartwatches:_What_Americans_Actually_Own&diff=12398&oldid=prev 2026-11-04T22:07:37Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw-interface=""> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="fr"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Version précédente</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Version du 4 novembre 2026 à 22:07</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Ligne 1 :</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Ligne 1 :</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Illustration: Quartz The tech gadgets most Americans own, according to Pew Research Center, say as much about daily routines as they do about the technology industry. The smartphone has moved from a luxury purchase to something close to universal. The desktop computer, written off repeatedly, still sits in millions of homes. Smart speakers arrived fast, then settled. What people report owning gives a clearer picture of American life than any product launch does. What makes Pew's work useful is repetition.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>The organization asks U.S. adults similar questions year after year, which turns isolated figures into trend lines. A device that shows up in most households one year and holds there the next has become ordinary household equipment. A category that climbs quickly and then flattens tells a different story — about novelty fading, price resistance, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del>[https://www.youtube.com/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">@GADGETUSAHUB GADGETAmerican</del>] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">or a market reaching everyone it was ever going to reach. </del>This list covers the seven device categories Pew has tracked most consistently: smartphones, desktop and laptop computers, tablets, smart speakers, smart TVs and streaming devices, gaming consoles, and wearables such as smartwatches and fitness trackers.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>Each has a different adoption curve and a different job inside the house. For some, non-ownership is now the more unusual finding. Others split roughly down the middle, along the lines of age, household income, and education that Pew's surveys flag again and again. Those gaps matter beyond the hardware itself. Pew's research on home broadband and on smartphone-dependent internet users shows that device ownership is unevenly distributed. The consequences fall hardest on lower-income households and older adults.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>A phone used as a substitute for a computer handles some tasks poorly, including job applications, school assignments, and certain government forms. None of this predicts what comes next. It describes where U.S. households stand now, based on what people report in surveys rather than on shipment estimates or marketing claims. Taken together, the seven categories below map how most American homes actually use technology day to day.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>Smartphones remain the most widely owned device Illustration: Quartz The smartphone is the most commonly owned device Pew Research Center tracks, held by the large majority of U.S. adults across nearly every demographic group. No other category in Pew's technology surveys comes close to that level of saturation. Ownership climbed steadily after the first iPhone and early Android handsets reached the market in the late 2000s.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>What began as a product for early adopters and younger, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> [https://www.youtube.com/@GADGETUSAHUB GADGETAmerican] </del>higher-income buyers spread outward through Pew's survey years to older adults, lower-income households, and people without college degrees. The curve was steep for roughly a decade, then flattened near the top — the shape of a market that has already reached most of the people it can reach. Gaps persist, though they are narrower than they once were. Pew's surveys consistently show lower smartphone ownership among adults 65 and older, and among those in lower-income households.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>Rural Americans report somewhat lower ownership than urban and suburban residents, a pattern tied to differences in cellular coverage and broadband availability rather than to interest in the devices themselves<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Pew also measures what the phone replaces. For years it has tracked smartphone-dependent internet users — people who own a smartphone but have no home broadband subscription</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Illustration: Quartz The tech gadgets most Americans own, according to Pew Research Center, say as much about daily routines as they do about the technology industry. The smartphone has moved from a luxury purchase to something close to universal. The desktop computer, written off repeatedly, still sits in millions of homes. Smart speakers arrived fast, then settled. What people report owning gives a clearer picture of American life than any product launch does.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>What makes Pew's work useful is repetition. The organization asks U.S. adults similar questions year after year, which turns isolated figures into trend lines. A device that shows up in most households one year and holds there the next has become ordinary household equipment. A category that climbs quickly and then flattens tells a different story — about novelty fading, price resistance, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">or a market reaching everyone it was ever going to reach.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>[https://www.youtube.com/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">watch?v=HQdUnBPWI0g&amp;t=2s youtube.com</ins>]This list covers the seven device categories Pew has tracked most consistently: smartphones, desktop and laptop computers, tablets, smart speakers, smart TVs and streaming devices, gaming consoles, and wearables such as smartwatches and fitness trackers. Each has a different adoption curve and a different job inside the house. For some, non-ownership is now the more unusual finding. Others split roughly down the middle, along the lines of age, household income, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> [https://www.youtube.com/@GADGETAmerican GADGETAmerican] </ins>and education that Pew's surveys flag again and again.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>Those gaps matter beyond the hardware itself. Pew's research on home broadband and on smartphone-dependent internet users shows that device ownership is unevenly distributed. The consequences fall hardest on lower-income households and older adults. A phone used as a substitute for a computer handles some tasks poorly, including job applications, school assignments, and certain government forms. None of this predicts what comes next. It describes where U.S. households stand now, based on what people report in surveys rather than on shipment estimates or marketing claims.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>Taken together, the seven categories below map how most American homes actually use technology day to day. Smartphones remain the most widely owned device Illustration: Quartz The smartphone is the most commonly owned device Pew Research Center tracks, held by the large majority of U.S. adults across nearly every demographic group. No other category in Pew's technology surveys comes close to that level of saturation.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>Ownership climbed steadily after the first iPhone and early Android handsets reached the market in the late 2000s. What began as a product for early adopters and younger, higher-income buyers spread outward through Pew's survey years to older adults, lower-income households, and people without college degrees. The curve was steep for roughly a decade, then flattened near the top — the shape of a market that has already reached most of the people it can reach.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>Gaps persist, though they are narrower than they once were. Pew's surveys consistently show lower smartphone ownership among adults 65 and older, and among those in lower-income households. Rural Americans report somewhat lower ownership than urban and suburban residents, a pattern tied to differences in cellular coverage and broadband availability rather than to interest in the devices themselves.</div></td></tr> </table>

Yasmin5631 https://jeux.wiki/index.php?title=Smartphones_To_Smartwatches:_What_Americans_Actually_Own&diff=10807&oldid=prev 2026-11-04T16:01:48Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw-interface=""> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="fr"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Version précédente</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Version du 4 novembre 2026 à 16:01</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Ligne 1 :</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Ligne 1 :</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Illustration: Quartz The tech gadgets most Americans own, according to Pew Research Center, say as much about daily routines as they do about the technology industry. The smartphone has moved from a luxury purchase to something close to universal. The desktop computer, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> [https://www.youtube.com/@USGADGETREND GADGETAmerican] </del>written off repeatedly, still sits in millions of homes. Smart speakers arrived fast, then settled. What people report owning gives a clearer picture of American life than any product launch does. What makes Pew's work useful is repetition.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The organization asks U.S. adults similar questions year after year, which turns isolated figures into trend lines. A device that shows up in most households one year and holds there the next has become ordinary household equipment. A category that climbs quickly and then flattens tells a different story — about novelty fading, price resistance, or a market reaching everyone it was ever going to reach. This list covers the seven device categories Pew has tracked most consistently: smartphones, desktop and laptop computers, tablets, smart speakers, smart TVs and streaming devices, gaming consoles, and wearables such as smartwatches and fitness trackers.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Each has a different adoption curve and a different job inside the house. For some, non-ownership is now the more unusual finding. Others split roughly down the middle, along the lines of age, household income, and education that Pew's surveys flag again and again. Those gaps matter beyond the hardware itself. Pew's research on home broadband and on smartphone-dependent internet users shows that device ownership is unevenly distributed.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>The consequences fall hardest on lower-income households and older adults. A phone used as a substitute for a computer handles some tasks poorly, including job applications, school assignments, and certain <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxsLZwpiu-k&amp;pp=0gcJCT8MAYcqIYzv </del>government forms<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]</del>. None of this predicts what comes next. It describes where U.S. households stand now, based on what people report in surveys rather than on shipment estimates or marketing claims.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>Taken together, the seven categories below map how most American homes actually use technology day to day. Smartphones remain the most widely owned device Illustration: Quartz The smartphone is the most commonly owned device Pew Research Center tracks, held by the large majority of U.S. adults across nearly every demographic group. No other category in Pew's technology surveys comes close to that level of saturation.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>Ownership climbed steadily after the first iPhone and early Android handsets reached the market in the late 2000s. What began as a product for early adopters and younger, higher-income buyers spread outward through Pew's survey years to older adults, lower-income households, and people without college degrees. The curve was steep for roughly a decade, then flattened near the top — the shape of a market that has already reached most of the people it can reach.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Illustration: Quartz The tech gadgets most Americans own, according to Pew Research Center, say as much about daily routines as they do about the technology industry. The smartphone has moved from a luxury purchase to something close to universal. The desktop computer, written off repeatedly, still sits in millions of homes. Smart speakers arrived fast, then settled. What people report owning gives a clearer picture of American life than any product launch does. What makes Pew's work useful is repetition.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The organization asks U.S. adults similar questions year after year, which turns isolated figures into trend lines. A device that shows up in most households one year and holds there the next has become ordinary household equipment. A category that climbs quickly and then flattens tells a different story — about novelty fading, price resistance, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> [https://www.youtube.com/@GADGETUSAHUB GADGETAmerican] </ins>or a market reaching everyone it was ever going to reach. This list covers the seven device categories Pew has tracked most consistently: smartphones, desktop and laptop computers, tablets, smart speakers, smart TVs and streaming devices, gaming consoles, and wearables such as smartwatches and fitness trackers.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Each has a different adoption curve and a different job inside the house. For some, non-ownership is now the more unusual finding. Others split roughly down the middle, along the lines of age, household income, and education that Pew's surveys flag again and again. Those gaps matter beyond the hardware itself. Pew's research on home broadband and on smartphone-dependent internet users shows that device ownership is unevenly distributed. The consequences fall hardest on lower-income households and older adults.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>A phone used as a substitute for a computer handles some tasks poorly, including job applications, school assignments, and certain government forms. None of this predicts what comes next. It describes where U.S. households stand now, based on what people report in surveys rather than on shipment estimates or marketing claims. Taken together, the seven categories below map how most American homes actually use technology day to day.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>Smartphones remain the most widely owned device Illustration: Quartz The smartphone is the most commonly owned device Pew Research Center tracks, held by the large majority of U.S. adults across nearly every demographic group. No other category in Pew's technology surveys comes close to that level of saturation. Ownership climbed steadily after the first iPhone and early Android handsets reached the market in the late 2000s.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>What began as a product for early adopters and younger, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> [https://www.youtube.com/@GADGETUSAHUB GADGETAmerican] </ins>higher-income buyers spread outward through Pew's survey years to older adults, lower-income households, and people without college degrees. The curve was steep for roughly a decade, then flattened near the top — the shape of a market that has already reached most of the people it can reach<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Gaps persist, though they are narrower than they once were. Pew's surveys consistently show lower smartphone ownership among adults 65 and older, and among those in lower-income households.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Rural Americans report somewhat lower ownership than urban and suburban residents, a pattern tied to differences in cellular coverage and broadband availability rather than to interest in the devices themselves. Pew also measures what the phone replaces. For years it has tracked smartphone-dependent internet users — people who own a smartphone but have no home broadband subscription</ins>.</div></td></tr> </table>

JackF660456 https://jeux.wiki/index.php?title=Smartphones_To_Smartwatches:_What_Americans_Actually_Own&diff=10374&oldid=prev 2026-11-04T14:36:39Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw-interface=""> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="fr"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Version précédente</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Version du 4 novembre 2026 à 14:36</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Ligne 1 :</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Ligne 1 :</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Illustration: Quartz The tech gadgets most Americans own, according to Pew Research Center, say as much about daily routines as they do about the technology industry. The smartphone has moved from a luxury purchase to something close to universal. The desktop computer<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, written off repeatedly</del>,  [https://www.youtube.com/@<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">AMERICAGADGETS </del>GADGETAmerican] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">([https://www.youtube.com/@AMERICAGADGETS Watch the video]) </del>still sits in millions of homes. Smart speakers arrived fast, then settled. What people report owning gives a clearer picture of American life than any product launch does.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>What makes Pew's work useful is repetition. The organization asks U.S. adults similar questions year after year, which turns isolated figures into trend lines. A device that shows up in most households one year and holds there the next has become ordinary household equipment. A category that climbs quickly and then flattens tells a different story — about novelty fading, price resistance, or a market reaching everyone it was ever going to reach. This list covers the seven device categories Pew has tracked most consistently: smartphones, desktop and laptop computers, tablets, smart speakers, smart TVs and streaming devices, gaming consoles, and wearables such as smartwatches and fitness trackers.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Each has a different adoption curve and a different job inside the house. For some, non-ownership is now the more unusual finding. Others split roughly down the middle, along the lines of age, household income, and education that Pew's surveys flag again and again. Those gaps matter beyond the hardware itself. Pew's research on home broadband and on smartphone-dependent internet users shows that device ownership is unevenly distributed. The consequences fall hardest on lower-income households and older adults.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>A phone used as a substitute for a computer handles some tasks poorly, including job applications, school assignments, and certain government forms. None of this predicts what comes next. It describes where U.S. households stand now, based on what people report in surveys rather than on shipment estimates or marketing claims. Taken together, the seven categories below map how most American homes actually use technology day to day. Smartphones remain the most widely owned device Illustration: Quartz The smartphone is the most commonly owned device Pew Research Center tracks, held by the large majority of U.S.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>adults across nearly every demographic group. No other category in Pew's technology surveys comes close to that level of saturation. Ownership climbed steadily after the first iPhone and early Android handsets reached the market in the late 2000s. What began as a product for early adopters and younger, higher-income buyers spread outward through Pew's survey years to older adults, lower-income households, and people without college degrees.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>The curve was steep for roughly a decade, then flattened near the top — the shape of a market that has already reached most of the people it can reach<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Gaps persist, though they are narrower than they once were. Pew's surveys consistently show lower smartphone ownership among adults 65 and older, and among those in lower-income households. Rural Americans report somewhat lower ownership than urban and suburban residents, a pattern tied to differences in cellular coverage and broadband availability rather than to interest in the devices themselves</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Illustration: Quartz The tech gadgets most Americans own, according to Pew Research Center, say as much about daily routines as they do about the technology industry. The smartphone has moved from a luxury purchase to something close to universal. The desktop computer,  [https://www.youtube.com/@<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">USGADGETREND </ins>GADGETAmerican] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">written off repeatedly, </ins>still sits in millions of homes. Smart speakers arrived fast, then settled. What people report owning gives a clearer picture of American life than any product launch does. What makes Pew's work useful is repetition.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>The organization asks U.S. adults similar questions year after year, which turns isolated figures into trend lines. A device that shows up in most households one year and holds there the next has become ordinary household equipment. A category that climbs quickly and then flattens tells a different story — about novelty fading, price resistance, or a market reaching everyone it was ever going to reach. This list covers the seven device categories Pew has tracked most consistently: smartphones, desktop and laptop computers, tablets, smart speakers, smart TVs and streaming devices, gaming consoles, and wearables such as smartwatches and fitness trackers.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Each has a different adoption curve and a different job inside the house. For some, non-ownership is now the more unusual finding. Others split roughly down the middle, along the lines of age, household income, and education that Pew's surveys flag again and again. Those gaps matter beyond the hardware itself. Pew's research on home broadband and on smartphone-dependent internet users shows that device ownership is unevenly distributed.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>The consequences fall hardest on lower-income households and older adults. A phone used as a substitute for a computer handles some tasks poorly, including job applications, school assignments, and certain <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxsLZwpiu-k&amp;pp=0gcJCT8MAYcqIYzv </ins>government forms<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]</ins>. None of this predicts what comes next. It describes where U.S. households stand now, based on what people report in surveys rather than on shipment estimates or marketing claims.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>Taken together, the seven categories below map how most American homes actually use technology day to day. Smartphones remain the most widely owned device Illustration: Quartz The smartphone is the most commonly owned device Pew Research Center tracks, held by the large majority of U.S. adults across nearly every demographic group. No other category in Pew's technology surveys comes close to that level of saturation.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>Ownership climbed steadily after the first iPhone and early Android handsets reached the market in the late 2000s. What began as a product for early adopters and younger, higher-income buyers spread outward through Pew's survey years to older adults, lower-income households, and people without college degrees. The curve was steep for roughly a decade, then flattened near the top — the shape of a market that has already reached most of the people it can reach.</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw-interface=""> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="fr"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Version précédente</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Version du 4 novembre 2026 à 13:39</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Ligne 1 :</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Ligne 1 :</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Illustration: Quartz The tech gadgets most Americans own, according to Pew Research Center, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> [https://www.youtube.com/@Gadgethubus GADGETAmerican] </del>say as much about daily routines as they do about the technology industry. The smartphone has moved from a luxury purchase to something close to universal. The desktop computer, written off repeatedly, still sits in millions of homes. Smart speakers arrived fast, then settled. What people report owning gives a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG62zkLhzo8 </del>clearer picture<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">] </del>of American life than any product launch does.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;What makes Pew's work useful is repetition. The organization asks U.S. adults similar questions year after year, which turns isolated figures into trend lines. A device that shows up in most households one year and holds there the next has become ordinary household equipment. A category that climbs quickly and then flattens tells a different story — about novelty fading, price resistance, or a market reaching everyone it was ever going to reach. This list covers the seven device categories Pew has tracked most consistently: smartphones, desktop and laptop computers, tablets, smart speakers, smart TVs and streaming devices, gaming consoles, and wearables such as smartwatches and fitness trackers.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Each has a different adoption curve and a different job inside the house. For some, non-ownership is now the more unusual finding. Others split roughly down the middle, along the lines of age, household income, and education that Pew's surveys flag again and again. Those gaps matter beyond the hardware itself. Pew's research on home broadband and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> GADGETAmerican </del>on smartphone-dependent internet users shows that device ownership is unevenly distributed.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>The consequences fall hardest on lower-income households and older adults. A phone used as a substitute for a computer handles some tasks poorly, including job applications, school assignments, and certain government forms. None of this predicts what comes next. It describes where U.S. households stand now, based on what people report in surveys rather than on shipment estimates or marketing claims. Taken together, the seven categories below map how most American homes actually use technology day to day.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>Smartphones remain the most widely owned device Illustration: Quartz The smartphone is the most commonly owned device Pew Research Center tracks, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> [https://www.youtube.com/@Gadgethubus GADGETAmerican] </del>held by the large majority of U.S. adults across nearly every demographic group. No other category in Pew's technology surveys comes close to that level of saturation. Ownership climbed steadily after the first iPhone and early Android handsets reached the market in the late 2000s. What began as a product for early adopters and younger, higher-income buyers spread outward through Pew's survey years to older adults, lower-income households, and people without college degrees.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The curve was steep for roughly a decade, then flattened near the top — the shape of a market that has already reached most of the people it can reach. Gaps persist, though they are narrower than they once were. Pew's surveys consistently show lower smartphone ownership among adults 65 and older, and among those in lower-income households. Rural Americans report somewhat lower ownership than urban and suburban residents, a pattern tied to differences in cellular coverage and broadband availability rather than to interest in the devices themselves.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Illustration: Quartz The tech gadgets most Americans own, according to Pew Research Center, say as much about daily routines as they do about the technology industry. The smartphone has moved from a luxury purchase to something close to universal. The desktop computer, written off repeatedly, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> [https://www.youtube.com/@AMERICAGADGETS GADGETAmerican] ([https://www.youtube.com/@AMERICAGADGETS Watch the video]) </ins>still sits in millions of homes. Smart speakers arrived fast, then settled. What people report owning gives a clearer picture of American life than any product launch does.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;What makes Pew's work useful is repetition. The organization asks U.S. adults similar questions year after year, which turns isolated figures into trend lines. A device that shows up in most households one year and holds there the next has become ordinary household equipment. A category that climbs quickly and then flattens tells a different story — about novelty fading, price resistance, or a market reaching everyone it was ever going to reach. This list covers the seven device categories Pew has tracked most consistently: smartphones, desktop and laptop computers, tablets, smart speakers, smart TVs and streaming devices, gaming consoles, and wearables such as smartwatches and fitness trackers.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Each has a different adoption curve and a different job inside the house. For some, non-ownership is now the more unusual finding. Others split roughly down the middle, along the lines of age, household income, and education that Pew's surveys flag again and again. Those gaps matter beyond the hardware itself. Pew's research on home broadband and on smartphone-dependent internet users shows that device ownership is unevenly distributed. The consequences fall hardest on lower-income households and older adults.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>A phone used as a substitute for a computer handles some tasks poorly, including job applications, school assignments, and certain government forms. None of this predicts what comes next. It describes where U.S. households stand now, based on what people report in surveys rather than on shipment estimates or marketing claims. Taken together, the seven categories below map how most American homes actually use technology day to day. Smartphones remain the most widely owned device Illustration: Quartz The smartphone is the most commonly owned device Pew Research Center tracks, held by the large majority of U.S.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>adults across nearly every demographic group. No other category in Pew's technology surveys comes close to that level of saturation. Ownership climbed steadily after the first iPhone and early Android handsets reached the market in the late 2000s. What began as a product for early adopters and younger, higher-income buyers spread outward through Pew's survey years to older adults, lower-income households, and people without college degrees.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The curve was steep for roughly a decade, then flattened near the top — the shape of a market that has already reached most of the people it can reach. Gaps persist, though they are narrower than they once were. Pew's surveys consistently show lower smartphone ownership among adults 65 and older, and among those in lower-income households. Rural Americans report somewhat lower ownership than urban and suburban residents, a pattern tied to differences in cellular coverage and broadband availability rather than to interest in the devices themselves.</div></td></tr> </table>

UrsulaLandis0 https://jeux.wiki/index.php?title=Smartphones_To_Smartwatches:_What_Americans_Actually_Own&diff=10354&oldid=prev 2026-11-04T13:15:09Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw-interface=""> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="fr"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Version précédente</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Version du 4 novembre 2026 à 13:15</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Ligne 1 :</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Ligne 1 :</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Illustration:  [https://www.youtube.com/@<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">USGADGETREND </del>GADGETAmerican] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Quartz The tech gadgets most Americans own, according to Pew Research Center, </del>say as much about daily routines as they do about the technology industry. The smartphone has moved from a luxury purchase to something close to universal. The desktop computer, written off repeatedly, still sits in millions of homes. Smart speakers arrived fast, then settled. What people report owning gives a clearer picture of American life than any product launch does. What makes Pew's work useful is repetition.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>The organization asks U.S. adults similar questions year after year, which turns isolated figures into trend lines. A device that shows up in most households one year and holds there the next has become ordinary household equipment. A category that climbs quickly and then flattens tells a different story — about novelty fading, price resistance, or a market reaching everyone it was ever going to reach. This list covers the seven device categories Pew has tracked most consistently: smartphones, desktop and laptop computers, tablets, smart speakers, smart TVs and streaming devices, gaming consoles, and wearables such as smartwatches and fitness trackers.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Each has a different adoption curve and a different job inside the house. For some, non-ownership is now the more unusual finding. Others split roughly down the middle, along the lines of age, household income, and education that Pew's surveys flag again and again. Those gaps matter beyond the hardware itself. Pew's research on home broadband and on smartphone-dependent internet users shows that device ownership is unevenly distributed. The consequences fall hardest on lower-income households and older adults.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>A phone used as a substitute for a computer handles some tasks poorly, including job applications, school assignments, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> GADGETAmerican </del>and certain government forms. None of this predicts what comes next. It describes where U.S. households stand now, based on what people report in surveys rather than on shipment estimates or marketing claims. Taken together, the seven categories below map how most American homes actually use technology day to day. Smartphones remain the most widely owned device Illustration: Quartz The smartphone is the most commonly owned device Pew Research Center tracks, held by the large majority of U.S.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>adults across nearly every demographic group. No other category in Pew's technology surveys comes close to that level of saturation. Ownership climbed steadily after the first iPhone and early Android handsets reached the market in the late 2000s. What began as a product for early adopters and younger, higher-income buyers spread outward through Pew's survey years to older adults, lower-income households, and people without college degrees. The curve was steep for roughly a decade, then flattened near the top — the shape of a market that has already reached most of the people it can reach.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>Gaps persist, though they are narrower than they once were. Pew's surveys consistently show lower smartphone ownership among adults 65 and older, and among those in lower-income households. Rural Americans report somewhat lower ownership than urban and suburban residents, a pattern tied to differences in cellular coverage and broadband availability rather than to interest in the devices themselves<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Pew also measures what the phone replaces.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For years it has tracked smartphone-dependent internet users — people who own a smartphone but have no home broadband subscription</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Illustration: <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Quartz The tech gadgets most Americans own, according to Pew Research Center, </ins> [https://www.youtube.com/@<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gadgethubus </ins>GADGETAmerican] say as much about daily routines as they do about the technology industry. The smartphone has moved from a luxury purchase to something close to universal. The desktop computer, written off repeatedly, still sits in millions of homes. Smart speakers arrived fast, then settled. What people report owning gives a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG62zkLhzo8 </ins>clearer picture<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">] </ins>of American life than any product launch does.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>What makes Pew's work useful is repetition. The organization asks U.S. adults similar questions year after year, which turns isolated figures into trend lines. A device that shows up in most households one year and holds there the next has become ordinary household equipment. A category that climbs quickly and then flattens tells a different story — about novelty fading, price resistance, or a market reaching everyone it was ever going to reach. This list covers the seven device categories Pew has tracked most consistently: smartphones, desktop and laptop computers, tablets, smart speakers, smart TVs and streaming devices, gaming consoles, and wearables such as smartwatches and fitness trackers.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Each has a different adoption curve and a different job inside the house. For some, non-ownership is now the more unusual finding. Others split roughly down the middle, along the lines of age, household income, and education that Pew's surveys flag again and again. Those gaps matter beyond the hardware itself. Pew's research on home broadband and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> GADGETAmerican </ins>on smartphone-dependent internet users shows that device ownership is unevenly distributed.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>The consequences fall hardest on lower-income households and older adults. A phone used as a substitute for a computer handles some tasks poorly, including job applications, school assignments, and certain government forms. None of this predicts what comes next. It describes where U.S. households stand now, based on what people report in surveys rather than on shipment estimates or marketing claims. Taken together, the seven categories below map how most American homes actually use technology day to day.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>Smartphones remain the most widely owned device Illustration: Quartz The smartphone is the most commonly owned device Pew Research Center tracks, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> [https://www.youtube.com/@Gadgethubus GADGETAmerican] </ins>held by the large majority of U.S. adults across nearly every demographic group. No other category in Pew's technology surveys comes close to that level of saturation. Ownership climbed steadily after the first iPhone and early Android handsets reached the market in the late 2000s. What began as a product for early adopters and younger, higher-income buyers spread outward through Pew's survey years to older adults, lower-income households, and people without college degrees.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>The curve was steep for roughly a decade, then flattened near the top — the shape of a market that has already reached most of the people it can reach. Gaps persist, though they are narrower than they once were. Pew's surveys consistently show lower smartphone ownership among adults 65 and older, and among those in lower-income households. Rural Americans report somewhat lower ownership than urban and suburban residents, a pattern tied to differences in cellular coverage and broadband availability rather than to interest in the devices themselves.</div></td></tr> </table>

AntoinetteNanya https://jeux.wiki/index.php?title=Smartphones_To_Smartwatches:_What_Americans_Actually_Own&diff=9976&oldid=prev 2026-11-04T05:30:59Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw-interface=""> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="fr"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Version précédente</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Version du 4 novembre 2026 à 05:30</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Ligne 1 :</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Ligne 1 :</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Illustration: <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Quartz The tech gadgets most Americans own, according to Pew Research Center, </del> [https://www.youtube.com/@<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">AMERICAGadget </del>GADGETAmerican] say as much about daily routines as they do about the technology industry. The smartphone has moved from a luxury purchase to something close to universal. The desktop computer, written off repeatedly, still sits in millions of homes. Smart speakers arrived fast, then settled. What people report owning gives a clearer picture of American life than any product launch does. What makes Pew's work useful is repetition.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The organization asks U.S. adults similar questions year after year, which turns isolated figures into trend lines. A device that shows up in most households one year and holds there the next has become ordinary household equipment. A category that climbs quickly and then flattens tells a different story — about novelty fading, price resistance, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> GADGETAmerican </del>or a market reaching everyone it was ever going to reach. This list covers the seven device categories Pew has tracked most consistently: smartphones, desktop and laptop computers, tablets, smart speakers, smart TVs and streaming devices, gaming consoles, and wearables such as smartwatches and fitness trackers.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Each has a different adoption curve and a different job inside the house. For some, non-ownership is now the more unusual finding. Others split roughly down the middle, along the lines of age, household income, and education that Pew's surveys flag again and again. Those gaps matter beyond the hardware itself. Pew's research on home broadband and on smartphone-dependent internet users shows that device ownership is unevenly distributed.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>The consequences fall hardest on lower-income households and older adults. A phone used as a substitute for a computer handles some tasks poorly, including job applications, school assignments, and certain government forms. None of this predicts what comes next. It describes where U.S. households stand now, based on what people report in surveys rather than on shipment estimates or marketing claims. Taken together, the seven categories below map how most American homes actually use technology day to day.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>Smartphones remain the most widely owned device Illustration: Quartz The smartphone is the most commonly owned device Pew Research Center tracks, held by the large majority of U.S. adults across nearly every demographic group. No other category in Pew's technology surveys comes close to that level of saturation. Ownership climbed steadily after the first iPhone and early Android handsets reached the market in the late 2000s. What began as a product for early adopters and younger, higher-income buyers spread outward through Pew's survey years to older adults, lower-income households, and people without college degrees.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>The curve was steep for roughly a decade, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> [https://www.youtube.com/@AMERICAGadget GADGETAmerican] </del>then flattened near the top — the shape of a market that has already reached most of the people it can reach. Gaps persist, though they are narrower than they once were.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Illustration:  [https://www.youtube.com/@<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">USGADGETREND </ins>GADGETAmerican] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Quartz The tech gadgets most Americans own, according to Pew Research Center, </ins>say as much about daily routines as they do about the technology industry. The smartphone has moved from a luxury purchase to something close to universal. The desktop computer, written off repeatedly, still sits in millions of homes. Smart speakers arrived fast, then settled. What people report owning gives a clearer picture of American life than any product launch does. What makes Pew's work useful is repetition.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The organization asks U.S. adults similar questions year after year, which turns isolated figures into trend lines. A device that shows up in most households one year and holds there the next has become ordinary household equipment. A category that climbs quickly and then flattens tells a different story — about novelty fading, price resistance, or a market reaching everyone it was ever going to reach. This list covers the seven device categories Pew has tracked most consistently: smartphones, desktop and laptop computers, tablets, smart speakers, smart TVs and streaming devices, gaming consoles, and wearables such as smartwatches and fitness trackers.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Each has a different adoption curve and a different job inside the house. For some, non-ownership is now the more unusual finding. Others split roughly down the middle, along the lines of age, household income, and education that Pew's surveys flag again and again. Those gaps matter beyond the hardware itself. Pew's research on home broadband and on smartphone-dependent internet users shows that device ownership is unevenly distributed. The consequences fall hardest on lower-income households and older adults.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>A phone used as a substitute for a computer handles some tasks poorly, including job applications, school assignments, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> GADGETAmerican </ins>and certain government forms. None of this predicts what comes next. It describes where U.S. households stand now, based on what people report in surveys rather than on shipment estimates or marketing claims. Taken together, the seven categories below map how most American homes actually use technology day to day. Smartphones remain the most widely owned device Illustration: Quartz The smartphone is the most commonly owned device Pew Research Center tracks, held by the large majority of U.S.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>adults across nearly every demographic group. No other category in Pew's technology surveys comes close to that level of saturation. Ownership climbed steadily after the first iPhone and early Android handsets reached the market in the late 2000s. What began as a product for early adopters and younger, higher-income buyers spread outward through Pew's survey years to older adults, lower-income households, and people without college degrees. The curve was steep for roughly a decade, then flattened near the top — the shape of a market that has already reached most of the people it can reach.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>Gaps persist, though they are narrower than they once were<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Pew's surveys consistently show lower smartphone ownership among adults 65 and older, and among those in lower-income households. Rural Americans report somewhat lower ownership than urban and suburban residents, a pattern tied to differences in cellular coverage and broadband availability rather than to interest in the devices themselves. Pew also measures what the phone replaces.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For years it has tracked smartphone-dependent internet users — people who own a smartphone but have no home broadband subscription</ins>.</div></td></tr> </table>

JillDuffy416243 https://jeux.wiki/index.php?title=Smartphones_To_Smartwatches:_What_Americans_Actually_Own&diff=9944&oldid=prev 2026-11-04T05:16:09Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw-interface=""> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="fr"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Version précédente</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Version du 4 novembre 2026 à 05:16</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Ligne 1 :</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Ligne 1 :</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Illustration: Quartz The tech gadgets most Americans own, according to Pew Research Center, say as much about daily routines as they do about the technology industry. The smartphone has moved from a luxury purchase to something close to universal. The desktop computer, written off repeatedly, still sits in millions of homes. Smart speakers arrived fast, then settled. What people report owning gives a clearer picture of American life than any product launch does.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>What makes Pew's work useful is repetition. The organization asks U.S. adults similar questions year after year, which turns isolated figures into trend lines. A device that shows up in most households one year and holds there the next has become ordinary household equipment. A category that climbs quickly and then flattens tells a different story — about novelty fading, price resistance, or a market reaching everyone it was ever going to reach.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVYwbYyJPTI&amp;t=18s youtube.com]</del>This list covers the seven device categories Pew has tracked most consistently: smartphones, desktop and laptop computers, tablets, smart speakers, smart TVs and streaming devices, gaming consoles, and wearables such as smartwatches and fitness trackers. Each has a different adoption curve and a different job inside the house. For some, non-ownership is now the more unusual finding. Others split roughly down the middle, along the lines of age, household income, and education that Pew's surveys flag again and again.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>Those gaps matter beyond the hardware itself. Pew's research on home broadband and on smartphone-dependent internet users shows that device ownership is unevenly distributed. The consequences fall hardest on lower-income households and older adults. A phone used as a substitute for a computer handles some tasks poorly, including job applications, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> [https://www.youtube.com/@GADGETUSAHUB GADGETAmerican] </del>school assignments, and certain government forms. None of this predicts what comes next. It describes where U.S. households stand now, based on what people report in surveys rather than on shipment estimates or marketing claims.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>Taken together, the seven categories below map how most American homes actually use technology day to day. Smartphones remain the most widely owned device Illustration: Quartz The smartphone is the most commonly owned device Pew Research Center tracks, held by the large majority of U.S. adults across nearly every demographic group. No other category in Pew's technology surveys comes close to that level of saturation. Ownership climbed steadily after the first iPhone and early Android handsets reached the market in the late 2000s.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>What began as a product for early adopters and younger, higher-income buyers spread outward through Pew's survey years to older adults, lower-income households, and people without college degrees. The curve was steep for roughly a decade, then flattened near the top — the shape of a market that has already reached most of the people it can reach. Gaps persist, though they are narrower than they once were<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Pew's surveys consistently show lower smartphone ownership among adults 65 and older, and among those in lower-income households</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Illustration: Quartz The tech gadgets most Americans own, according to Pew Research Center, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> [https://www.youtube.com/@AMERICAGadget GADGETAmerican] </ins>say as much about daily routines as they do about the technology industry. The smartphone has moved from a luxury purchase to something close to universal. The desktop computer, written off repeatedly, still sits in millions of homes. Smart speakers arrived fast, then settled. What people report owning gives a clearer picture of American life than any product launch does. What makes Pew's work useful is repetition.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>The organization asks U.S. adults similar questions year after year, which turns isolated figures into trend lines. A device that shows up in most households one year and holds there the next has become ordinary household equipment. A category that climbs quickly and then flattens tells a different story — about novelty fading, price resistance, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> GADGETAmerican </ins>or a market reaching everyone it was ever going to reach. This list covers the seven device categories Pew has tracked most consistently: smartphones, desktop and laptop computers, tablets, smart speakers, smart TVs and streaming devices, gaming consoles, and wearables such as smartwatches and fitness trackers.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>Each has a different adoption curve and a different job inside the house. For some, non-ownership is now the more unusual finding. Others split roughly down the middle, along the lines of age, household income, and education that Pew's surveys flag again and again. Those gaps matter beyond the hardware itself. Pew's research on home broadband and on smartphone-dependent internet users shows that device ownership is unevenly distributed.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>The consequences fall hardest on lower-income households and older adults. A phone used as a substitute for a computer handles some tasks poorly, including job applications, school assignments, and certain government forms. None of this predicts what comes next. It describes where U.S. households stand now, based on what people report in surveys rather than on shipment estimates or marketing claims. Taken together, the seven categories below map how most American homes actually use technology day to day.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>Smartphones remain the most widely owned device Illustration: Quartz The smartphone is the most commonly owned device Pew Research Center tracks, held by the large majority of U.S. adults across nearly every demographic group. No other category in Pew's technology surveys comes close to that level of saturation. Ownership climbed steadily after the first iPhone and early Android handsets reached the market in the late 2000s. What began as a product for early adopters and younger, higher-income buyers spread outward through Pew's survey years to older adults, lower-income households, and people without college degrees.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>The curve was steep for roughly a decade, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> [https://www.youtube.com/@AMERICAGadget GADGETAmerican] </ins>then flattened near the top — the shape of a market that has already reached most of the people it can reach. Gaps persist, though they are narrower than they once were.</div></td></tr> </table>

KennithSbt https://jeux.wiki/index.php?title=Smartphones_To_Smartwatches:_What_Americans_Actually_Own&diff=9309&oldid=prev 2026-11-03T20:04:59Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw-interface=""> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="fr"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Version précédente</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Version du 3 novembre 2026 à 20:04</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Ligne 1 :</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Ligne 1 :</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Illustration: Quartz The tech gadgets most Americans own, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> [https://www.youtube.com/@AMERICAGADGETS GADGETAmerican] </del>according to Pew Research Center, say as much about daily routines as they do about the technology industry. The smartphone has moved from a luxury purchase to something close to universal. The desktop computer, written off repeatedly, still sits in millions of homes. Smart speakers arrived fast, then settled. What people report owning gives a clearer picture of American life than any product launch does. What makes Pew's work useful is repetition.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>The organization asks U.S. adults similar questions year after year, which turns isolated figures into trend lines. A device that shows up in most households one year and holds there the next has become ordinary household equipment. A category that climbs quickly and then flattens tells a different story — about novelty fading, price resistance, or a market reaching everyone it was ever going to reach. This list covers the seven device categories Pew has tracked most consistently: smartphones, desktop and laptop computers, tablets, smart speakers, smart TVs and streaming devices, gaming consoles, and wearables such as smartwatches and fitness trackers.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>Each has a different adoption curve and a different job inside the house. For some, non-ownership is now the more unusual finding. Others split roughly down the middle, along the lines of age, household income, and education that Pew's surveys flag again and again. Those gaps matter beyond the hardware itself. Pew's research on home broadband and on smartphone-dependent internet users shows that device ownership is unevenly distributed. The consequences fall hardest on lower-income households and older adults.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>A phone used as a substitute for a computer handles some tasks poorly, including job applications, school assignments, and certain government forms. None of this predicts what comes next. It describes where U.S. households stand now, based on what people report in surveys rather than on shipment estimates or marketing claims. Taken together, the seven categories below map how most American homes actually use technology day to day. Smartphones remain the most widely owned device Illustration: Quartz The smartphone is the most commonly owned device Pew Research Center tracks, held by the large majority of U.S.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>adults across nearly every demographic group. No other category in Pew's technology surveys comes close to that level of saturation. Ownership climbed steadily after the first iPhone and early Android handsets reached the market in the late 2000s. What began as a product for early adopters and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> [https://www.youtube.com/@AMERICAGADGETS GADGETAmerican] </del>younger, higher-income buyers spread outward through Pew's survey years to older adults, lower-income households, and people without college degrees. The curve was steep for roughly a decade, then flattened near the top — the shape of a market that has already reached most of the people it can reach.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</del>Gaps persist, though they are narrower than they once were. Pew's surveys consistently show lower smartphone ownership among adults 65 and older, and among those in lower-income households<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Rural Americans report somewhat lower ownership than urban and suburban residents, a pattern tied to differences in cellular coverage and broadband availability rather than to interest in the devices themselves</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Illustration: Quartz The tech gadgets most Americans own, according to Pew Research Center, say as much about daily routines as they do about the technology industry. The smartphone has moved from a luxury purchase to something close to universal. The desktop computer, written off repeatedly, still sits in millions of homes. Smart speakers arrived fast, then settled. What people report owning gives a clearer picture of American life than any product launch does.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>What makes Pew's work useful is repetition. The organization asks U.S. adults similar questions year after year, which turns isolated figures into trend lines. A device that shows up in most households one year and holds there the next has become ordinary household equipment. A category that climbs quickly and then flattens tells a different story — about novelty fading, price resistance, or a market reaching everyone it was ever going to reach.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVYwbYyJPTI&amp;t=18s youtube.com]</ins>This list covers the seven device categories Pew has tracked most consistently: smartphones, desktop and laptop computers, tablets, smart speakers, smart TVs and streaming devices, gaming consoles, and wearables such as smartwatches and fitness trackers. Each has a different adoption curve and a different job inside the house. For some, non-ownership is now the more unusual finding. Others split roughly down the middle, along the lines of age, household income, and education that Pew's surveys flag again and again.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>Those gaps matter beyond the hardware itself. Pew's research on home broadband and on smartphone-dependent internet users shows that device ownership is unevenly distributed. The consequences fall hardest on lower-income households and older adults. A phone used as a substitute for a computer handles some tasks poorly, including job applications, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> [https://www.youtube.com/@GADGETUSAHUB GADGETAmerican] </ins>school assignments, and certain government forms. None of this predicts what comes next. It describes where U.S. households stand now, based on what people report in surveys rather than on shipment estimates or marketing claims.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>Taken together, the seven categories below map how most American homes actually use technology day to day. Smartphones remain the most widely owned device Illustration: Quartz The smartphone is the most commonly owned device Pew Research Center tracks, held by the large majority of U.S. adults across nearly every demographic group. No other category in Pew's technology surveys comes close to that level of saturation. Ownership climbed steadily after the first iPhone and early Android handsets reached the market in the late 2000s.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</ins>What began as a product for early adopters and younger, higher-income buyers spread outward through Pew's survey years to older adults, lower-income households, and people without college degrees. The curve was steep for roughly a decade, then flattened near the top — the shape of a market that has already reached most of the people it can reach. Gaps persist, though they are narrower than they once were. Pew's surveys consistently show lower smartphone ownership among adults 65 and older, and among those in lower-income households.</div></td></tr> </table>

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