Oh, and not totally unconnected, accelerated smartphone adoption has been accompanied with the acceleration of app downloading, with that acceleration the average number of apps per smartphone has jumped 66%, from an average of 30 up to 49.
The amount of acceleration in metrics like average ticket should hint as to how much homeowners are buying into job market and housing recovery and how much they're snapping up snapdragons when they would normally be scraping ice off of windshields.