When a critical mass of users has adopted the product, its diffusion curve "takes off" and it no longer needs outside support [55].
Although some consumer companies offer it, Google, Dropbox and Facebook included, only a fraction of their users have adopted it.
Facebook users have adopted the term "Facebook official" to mark when they are prepared to go public with a relationship, says Ilana Gershon, an assistant professor at Indiana University and the author of "The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting Over New Media".
In an atmosphere of increased concern about surveillance, users have adopted privacy-enhancing technologies, ditched services they deemed to have inadequate privacy protections, and even cut back on using the Internet for sensitive communications altogether.
Although the peripheral CT units described herein have established feasible standardized protocols that users have adopted globally, there remain challenges in standardizing MRI protocols for bone and muscle imaging.
Since debuting in India in February 2010, over 5 million users have adopted the service across Asia.
When it comes time to type in Arabic, many Internet users have adopted a phonetic web language that spells out Arabic words with these Latin letters.
He also noted that even though users have adopted RingCentral on the desktop and mobile, "we often see demand for an 'installation-free' communication experience".
In that case, it was an idea that we thought compelling and without going into the details, users have adopted it and used it enough to prove to us that it is compelling.
Apple itself shared that 100 million iOS users have adopted iOS 6, but Onswipe's data suggests even more could've switched since they first released that number on Monday this week.
But one of the conventions Twitter users have adopted to associate their tweets with a certain event — the hash tag — can be an incredibly inefficient way to spread what's actually going on.
