Comments on: U.S. Mobile Web Usage a Win-Win for Google

By: Android and iPhone aren’t playing a zero sum game | CodyWillard.com

Android and iPhone aren’t playing a zero sum game | CodyWillard.com — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:46:33 +0000

[...] Quantcast chart shows Android stealing market share from everyone in the mobile web consumption [...]

By: Three tech stories you need to read today | CodyWillard.com

Three tech stories you need to read today | CodyWillard.com — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:55:19 +0000

[...] Quantcast chart shows Android stealing market share from everyone in the mobile web consumption [...]

By: Should Android be Startups’ First Choice? «

Should Android be Startups’ First Choice? « — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:46:20 +0000

[...] all, Google’s Android already claims 25 percent of mobile web usage, and is on track to dominate over half the smartphone market, according to a new report from Piper [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:45:59 +0000

I recently sold my iPhone, as it truely was horrible, it couldn’t even send stuff via bluetooth to other phones. I picked up a Android 2.1 based HTC Legend, and it’s 100x the phone the iphone ever was…

I was blind, but now I see. After enjoying Android, and specifically HTC Sense, I would never go back to clunky iOS. Sure they now have multitasking like Android, but how long will Apple take to make widgets and things that make Android so user friendly? years methinks.

By: Rdx

Rdx — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:24:04 +0000

includes ipods

By: just some dude

just some dude — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:22:15 +0000

My god, steady growth since day one of its release, how does one explain that. LOL, yes sarcasm is high. Android just rocks. Its ok Jobs dont cry man, it will be ok. Hey maybe you can make like an iPacifier or something, and charge $100 for it.

By: rob

rob — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:36:01 +0000

@Kevin C. Tofel
You article is misleading, this in not iOS vs. Android, it is iPhone vs. ALL MOBILE PHONES THAT RUN ANDROID OS. iPad and iPod touch have been excluded although they run iOS making the whole comparison mute. Also the ACTIVATIONS for iOS and Android are almost the same at +/- 230K, Android growth in context is nothing to write home about.
While search will always be there,Apps are becoming more important often being the first to be launched when people are looking for certain services be it news or products. With Apple running their own Ad service and RIM looking for their own (Microsoft will surely have their own), Google will soon dread the day they decided to compete against device manufactures instead of partnering with them.

By: Narayanan

Narayanan — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:51:38 +0000

The data is for web access(primarily Apps) and not mobile search. I would be careful to draw conclusions about search from this data.

Perhaps you should look into metrics of how many of those usage hits are actually from search.

But it is clear that Android is filling in a vacuum that would have been left open for iOS to grab.

By: Robert Zion

Robert Zion — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:57:06 +0000

And what is Bing’s stand on net neutrality sir?

By: Brian S Hall

Brian S Hall — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:27:52 +0000

FWIW,
when Google abandoned net neutrality I switched my default search on iPhone to Bing. So far, no downside.