“Mobile phones have overtaken computers as the most popular device for getting online in China, the government said yesterday, as it announced the number of web users had hit 538 million,” The Malaysian Insider reports.

“China has the world’s biggest online population, with nearly four out of 10 of its 1.3 billion people now using the web, according to a report from the state-linked China Internet Network Information Center,” MI reports. “Until this year, a majority of Chinese web users accessed the Internet via computers.”

MI reports, “But smartphones have allowed more and more rural Chinese to go online in areas not covered by fixed-line networks, the report said. Nearly 52 per cent of users who started to use the Internet this year are from the countryside.”

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MacDailyNews Take: Bodes well for Apple!

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "fatfreddy" for the heads up.]