> <i>the smartphone emerging as the platform of choice vs the desktop browser</i><p>This is repeated from blog to blog but is it really true?<p>Smartphones outsell desktops because you change phones every 18 months while a desktop will last maybe a decade or more; but do people really <i>prefer</i> to use their phone if they have a choice?<p>It would seem to me people who use a phone most of the time are people who don't have easy access to a desktop: young people, or people who don't have a job or whose job keeps them away from a desk (lucky them!)<p>When I'm around people who use a smartphone, I never see them engaged in anything more complex than listening to music, texting, or playing some super-simple game such as CandyCrush; they're never "browsing" anything, searching, writing, composing, etc.<p>So if you're doing social or communications, sure, mobile first makes a lot of sense, but how about other domains?<p>Do people use Github from mobile platforms? The Github app for Android apparently has "100,000+ downloads", which doesn't seem like a lot?<p>It would be interesting to know the numbers for Github (for example), of mobile vs. desktop usage.