Comments on: AdMob: Android Smartphone Jumps to 5% OS Share in U.S.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:13:10 +0000

Totally skewed figures…

All this shows is who suffers the most adverts!

By: elbowz

elbowz — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:20:48 +0000

Who browses mobile websites these days? No-one. So how would anyone get to a mobile version of a site? A redirect. And this survey is from a company with iPhone and Android targeted advertising as a key revenue generator. And most sites will redirect based on the browser id.

Hmm, so what you’re saying here is that on a survey of websites where the majority of users are iPhone and Android based, most users are browsing with an iPhone or Android phone? That’s truly blinding insight and not likely to be a skewed view of the real world at all. Or maybe its complete rubbish and should have been binned rather than re-published?

Here’s a better idea, take a survey of all the websites using Alex King’s WordPress mobile plugin and see what you come up with. Well blow me, nobody’s browsing on an iPhone!

By: Tom Reestman

Tom Reestman — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:41:46 +0000

Kevin,

Thanks. In looking at page 4 of the PDF, you can see where the Storm hit around mid-November. Its graph is almost the opposite of the 8800, and this time also coincides with the Curve’s previous rise flattening out.

Meanwhile, throughout the entire graph’s timeline the Pearl dropped like a rock, and the 8700 slowly declined.

An optimist might say the Storm kept customers in the RIM family, but a “glass half-empty” kind of guy would point out that they only sold at the expense of other RIM models. No matter how you look at it, though, the trend is that the Storm is not increasing RIM share.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:07:17 +0000

Valid points of course. I look at it slightly differently. They lost 1% globally as you pointed out: Apple’s growth came mostly at the expense of everyone *but* RIM. I’m not sure I agree on your other point, although it’s clearly arguable. The Storm might have had more than a quarter to pump numbers, but it had issues at launch that didn’t get resolved for a while. It’s also only on a single carrier as an exclusive, so I’m not sure how much it could “pump up the numbers” overall.

By: Tom Reestman

Tom Reestman — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:48:48 +0000

“I’m sure the folks at Apple and RIM are pretty happy with the info”

Why would RIM be “pretty happy”? They’re down 1% globally, and 11% in the US. The latter is particularly stinging given that the Storm has had more than a quarter to pump up the numbers.