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Types of devices

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Types of devices

- [Instructor] Here is a fun fact to start us out. In the year 2016, global mobile devices and connections grew to eight billion, and are projected to reach 11.6 billion by the year 2021. This is a staggeringly faster rate of growth than the global human population, at 7.4 billion people in 2016, and a projected 7.9 billion by 2021. This means for every human born on Earth, we are manufacturing and connecting roughly 10 new devices. My point being that we, as developers, administrators, and engineers, have a lot to keep track of. When developing an application for the enterprise, really for any kind of solution, we need to take a look at what our target devices are. In the consumer world, some of the things we need to be more concerned with are multi-tasking, and making sure the application pauses and resumes as expected, or the varying screen densities across different devices, but in the enterprise world we are far more interested in where the device lives, who the primary user is…

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