The use of mobile phone apps has surged in recent years, and helped a new generation into investing; desktop computers, though, remain a favourite of traders.
Australia has rarely seen a phenomenon like the smartphone, which launched in this country in 2007 with Telstra’s offer of the Nokia N95. But with all due respect to the Finnish group, it was the advent of Apple’s iPhone 3G in 2008 that changed everything – essentially defining the capability that Australians expected from their mobile.
The smartphone certainly changed online stockbroking.
