Want vivid proof that the financial landscape that we know is changing, dramatically and forever? Feast on the extraordinary rise in spending on mobile gaming, a number analysts at ABI Research predict in a new report will hit $16 billion in 2015, up from below $5 billion in 2011.
One big factor is the proliferation of touchscreen-operated smartphones which, say the researchers, provides a fertile context for gaming on the run.
Another factor is the increasing consumer willingness to spend real money on so-called virtual goods (such as barns and crops and tractors within a farm game).
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