A cloud testing company says its survey shows Dallas has the highest mobile device adoption in the country, beating out San Francisco -- the Silicon Valley home of Apple, Facebook, Twitter -- which comes in No. 6.
SOASTA, Inc. conducted a Harris Interactive survey of ten U.S. cities and found Dallas leads all cities with 76 percent of respondents saying they owned and used a smartphone.
Big D even beat out the Big Apple which came in last on the list.
Mobile Device Penetration
Rank | City | Percentage |
1. | Dallas | 76% |
2. | Los Angeles | 66% |
3. | Washington, D.C. | 64% |
4. | Philadelphia | 62% |
5. | Houston | 62% |
6. | San Francisco | 61% |
7. | Atlanta | 60% |
8. | Chicago | 57% |
9. | Boston | 55% |
10. | New York | 48% |
Dallas also leads all American cities when it comes to owning and using a tablet, while Atlanta had the fewest tablet users.
Tablet Penetration
Rank | City | Percentage |
1. | Dallas | 48% |
2. | Washington, D.C. | 43% |
3.(tie) | Chicago | 39% |
3. (tie) | New York | 39% |
4. (tie) | Los Angeles | 38% |
4. (tie) | Boston | 38% |
5. | Philadelphia | 37% |
6. | San Francisco | 36% |
7. | Houston | 34% |
8. | Atlanta | 30% |
SOASTA's survey also found that 97 percent of smartphone users in Dallas were likely to delete or uninstall mobile apps they purchased if they had frequent bugs or crashed constantly.