They spend less of that time talking, and more of it texting, e-mailing, networking etc.
FORTUNE -- The average American adult, according to a new survey by Experian's Simmons Connect, spends 58 minutes a day on his or her smartphone. But how much time they spend on the phone and what they do with it, depends a lot on whether it's an Apple (AAPL) iPhone or a Google (GOOG) Android device.
In MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 2, 2013 7:16 AM ETThe DOJ's e-books "ringmaster" theory dates back to the days of the railroad cartels.
FORTUNE -- The first federal antitrust trial in almost a decade -- U.S.A. v. Apple Inc. et al. -- is scheduled to begin Monday in a Manhattan courthouse.
The et al. in the title are five book publishers accused of conspiring in late 2009 and early 2010 to raise the prices of e-books.
The publishers -- Penguin, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 2, 2013 5:30 AM ET
There may be method to Apple's apparent madness, says UBS' Steve Milunovich.
FORTUNE -- It's not hard to see the source of Wall Street's frustration with Apple (AAPL). It's that big red triangle in the chart at right that shows the rapidly growing share of the worldwide smartphone market owned by Google's (GOOG) Android.
What is Tim Cook waiting for? his critics ask. Why hasn't he lowered the price of the iPhone to MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 1, 2013 8:35 AM ET
Tea Party Senators and a conservative newspaper came -- briefly -- to Apple's defense.
FORTUNE -- Steve Jobs wasn't given to making political statements, but he did send signals: He dated Joan Baez, he toasted Barack Obama and, according to Walter Isaacson's biography, he chewed out Rupert Murdoch privately for letting Fox News become "an incredibly destructive force in our society."
But when Tim Cook testified before a Senate subcommittee about Apple's MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 31, 2013 7:51 AM ET
Shell Oil's money sent Lisa Jackson to college. An oil pipeline drove her from the EPA.
FORTUNE -- For people who didn't know much about Lisa P. Jackson before Tim Cook announced Tuesday that he had hired the former head of the EPA as Apple's (AAPL) first vice president for environmental initiatives, here's a briefing:
She was born in Philadelphia, raised in New Orleans, graduated summa com laude from Tulane and got a masters MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 30, 2013 12:51 PM ET
Apple figured prominently in the Queen of the Net's 2013 presentation of industry trends.
FORTUNE -- If you don't have 23 minutes to watch the video of Mary Meeker's state-of-the-Internet report at AllThingsD 2013 -- or if you just want a chance to study more closely slides that she showed for an average of 14 seconds each -- here are the 10 that pertained to Apple (AAPL).
They covered everything from the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 30, 2013 7:20 AM ET
Were we listening to the same AllThingsD interview?
FORTUNE -- "We felt that after viewing the conversation, it seems fairly certain that Apple will launch a television, a watch, and multiple iterations of the iPhone by the end of 2014 as well as a potential new service offering."
That's how Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster -- an Apple (AAPL) analyst who has been predicting the imminent arrival of an Apple television set since MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 29, 2013 1:22 PM ET
Tim Cook said at D:11 that Apple has sold more 13 million units. That was news.
FORTUNE -- For a number of reasons -- including all those questions about future products not even Steve Jobs would have touched -- Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook didn't break much news Tuesday night at AllThingsD.
But he did provide a new data point about Apple TV: He said the company has sold more than 13 MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 29, 2013 10:54 AM ETThe reviews on Twitter were especially harsh.
FORTUNE -- It didn't take long for the critics to weigh in on Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook's performance at D:11 AllThingsD Tuesday night.
Thanks to the Internet -- and especially to Twitter -- the first reviews were posted before he left the stage. They were not very kind.
A representative sample:
Adam Lashinsky, Senior editor at large, Fortune. The unbearable lightness of what Tim Cook says: The interview conducted MORE Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 29, 2013 7:16 AM ETThe full video of Cook's appearance at AllThingsD is now available online.
FORTUNE -- If you weren't invited or couldn't afford the $5,500 entrance fee to see Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook live at the Wall Street Journal's D:11 conference Tuesday, not to fear. For the price of a pre-roll ad, you can watch the whole thing at AllThingsD.com.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 29, 2013 5:43 AM ET