Looking back, many people agree that one of the most significant phenomenon over the last decade was the rise of the smartphone. Sending a message half-way across the world to a friend or cousin for free, browsing the most recent cricket score while streaming music and ordering biryani via Swiggy, or, catching a relatively inexpensive car ride to the train station would not be possible without the smartphone. The same goes for location-based dating and navigation apps.
Today, there are about 3 billion smartphone users or almost every other person in the world has one. At the start of 2010, just
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