Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 29th Mar 2010 09:48 UTC
There are various trains of thought regarding Apple suing HTC, and one of them is that Apple feels threatened by Android's rise in popularity. Some laughed this away, but when you look at recent statistics regarding mobile web usage, it becomes pretty clear Apple has every reason to feel threatened by Google's mobile operating system.
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RE[3]: What about the overall market size?
by Thom_Holwerda on Mon 29th Mar 2010 11:26
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What I'm trying to say is that taken out of context, the percentage figures are pretty meaningless. It is like extrapolating the total number of cars on the road from counting the traffic on one highway for one day.
You're the one doing the extrapolating. Nobody is talking about these figures being indicative of sales figures (in fact, I specifically mention they're not in the article), except for you.
what these figures indicate is that in mobile browsing, something more or less launched by the iPhone and can thus be seen as a traditionally iPhone-heavy area, Android is starting to take over. That's big.
RE[4]: What about the overall market size?
by mrhasbean on Mon 29th Mar 2010 12:10
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what these figures indicate is that in mobile browsing, something more or less launched by the iPhone and can thus be seen as a traditionally iPhone-heavy area, Android is starting to take over. That's big.
I still fail to see how "that's big" except in the way all statistics are - for marketing purposes. The largest demographic for Android users is those who are more tech savvy. Those users will also generally be much heavier 'net users on their phones - there are probably more iPhone users who've never browsed the 'net on the device than there are Android users in total. There are also now more choices in the marketplace for devices that are capable of this, so of course it would be expected that iPhone's percentage share would fall - if you're the only cab on the rank you're going to get all the business but as soon as another turns up... But of course you can read into the figures what you will. I think it's just good healthy competition - as it should be.
What will be more interesting to see is if Android does become the dominant player whether certain people will judge Google by the same yardsticks they've used for Apple. I suspect not - the comments about Windows Phone 7 have been a prelude to that.
Because we all know that Android is open so its good whereas iPhone is closed so it's evil. And Google is totally user focussed, they've got no interest in profit at all so their intentions will always be pure and selfless unlike Apple who are just "inherently evil" money grabbing scum building products with the sole intention of ripping people off. That's right isn't it Thom?
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Ok then. How about having the total number of different phones that are in the different 100% samples?
This would allow us to see the raw numbers. How many iPhones, how many Blackberries etc.
Sure, as a market matures the % of the market taken by the first to market will drop as other players enter the scene.
I have an iPhone 3G and used to have a BBerry but I hardly ever browse the web with either of them. As one poster said, there are many apps that give me all the data access I want or I might even browse those sites that are not counted in this survey.
I know that all my own sites are not in this as I refuse to let any webcounters/tracker anywhere near my web pages.
What I'm trying to say is that taken out of context, the percentage figures are pretty meaningless. It is like extrapolating the total number of cars on the road from counting the traffic on one highway for one day.