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iPhone claws web share back from Android

updated 10:20 am EDT, Tue June 1, 2010

Net Apps shows iPhone back on rise


New updates from Net Applications today show that the iPhone may be overtaking Android in actual use online. Despite talk of the gap closing in April, Apple's phone grew faster in May as it jumped from 30.3 percent the month before to 32.8 percent of the mobile web. Android expanded at the same time, but it moved from 5.3 percent to just 6.2 percent.

Most of their share games came directly at the expense of Java ME. The basic phone OS has slipped to just over 40 percent and shows smartphones increasingly taking over traffic on the tens of thousands of websites covered by the analytic firm. BlackBerry and Windows Mobile play far smaller roles at 3.6 percent and 3 percent each.

The researches added that iPad traffic is still just a very small portion of all web use but that it appropriately shot up rapidly with the international launch. Apple's tablet use more than doubled from 0.08 percent the day before the May 28 international debut to 0.17 percent three days later.








By Electronista Staff

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  1. archer75

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    06/01, 10:56am | reply

    misleading graph?

    This graph seems inaccurate. Data for May as shown on CBS market watch puts android at 28%, iphone at 21% and RIM destroying them both. Or perhaps this means that iphone users are just online more?


  1. testudo

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    Joined: Aug 2001

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    06/01, 11:39am | reply

    Re: misleading

    All these statistics are looking at is browser usage on devices, and not trying to otherwise indicate which devices have a greater marketshare.


  1. vasic

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    06/01, 12:02pm | (1 reply) | reply

    Browser share, sales volume

    Browser share and sales volumes are very different beasts. Sales volumes are very, very seasonal and are extremely misleading (Droid may be selling extremely well, while iPhone is in the down season, in anticipation of the new model).

    Browser stats can be a fairly reliable indicator of the current platform market share. And while the market share indication may not be so reliable (depending on which sites are used for the data), trends will be much more reliable.

    And the trends indicate that, while both iPhone and Android are growing (at the expense of Symbian and others), for every 1% that Android takes away from those others, iPhone takes away 2%. Even though Android's relative growth (from 5% to 6%) represents faster growth rate (almost 20%) than iPhone's (from 30% to 32%, roughly, or about 8%), it still doesn't help Android.

    Bottom line here is, as fast as Android's browser (=market) share is growing, it simply can't keep up with iPhone's market share growth rate. The total market share pie is only 100%. For Apple, that means that if the current number of devices doubles, it will command over two thirds of that pie. For Android, in order to achieve that, it will have to grow ten times (while Apple stops selling devices altogether, in order to stay at the current market share). Obviously, the total size of that market is growing too, which means that Apple won't stop selling devices, but also that Android has to sell much more than ten times the current numbers.


  1. wrenchy

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    Joined: Nov 2009

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    06/01, 08:56pm | reply

    Hmmmm.


    I wonder how many of those sites the iPhone visited contain Flash?

    Oh wait....


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