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Gen Z is not the same thing as Gen Alpha. Gen Z grew up on PC.
Kind of interesting how quickly the smartphone usage exploded but also how it wasn't that long ago. Early Z most definitely grew up as PC users while late Z grew up with mobile being the primary website visiting tool.
I had to do some quick checking and this is what I found.
If we use Wikipedias timeline picture then Zoomers are born 1997-2012 (the text also references 1995, but I used the graphic):
In 2011 (Gen Z are now -1 to 14 years old) web traffic was predominantly according to smartinsights.com:
In 2015 (Gen Z are now 3 to 18 years old) things has begun to switch with most western countries reporting between 15% to 30% of web traffic being mobile:
In 2020 (Gen Z are now 8 to 23 years old) 61% of US website visits are from mobile devices: