Comments on: Net Applications mobile browsing statistics: iPhone 66% share

By: Oliver

Oliver — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:43:41 +0000

I’d guestimate that the average web page I access on my iPhone is about 10-100x larger (in bytes) than the average WAP page (well, okay, I haven’t used WAP in about 8 years, so maybe I don’t know what I am talking about).

I am always suspicious about the validity and accuracy of any of these statistics. I just can’t think of a reliable way to gather these stats.

By: NigelG

NigelG — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:57:17 +0000

If you look carefully at their website, they bury the information that this doesn’t include WAP. Which may not bother those of us in 3G land, but WAP phone usage is huge in China and Africa.

So it is by no means a “world” view.

And the bits that say HOW they collect the data is bizarre. Is it from site clickthroughs?

Without doubt net usage is far greater on an iPhone that any other, but there are simply not enough handsets to make THAT much difference in the whole world.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:59:43 +0000

It has to be page views or data transferred. There is no way they have 66% of mobile Internet users. Opera Mini alone has over 20 million monthly users, which exceeds the install base of the iphone.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:00:57 +0000

The Android/G1 figure surprises me a bit, but the iPhone number doesn’t shock one one bit. The amount of mobile surfing for me has probably increased by a factor of 10 since I went from a Treo 700p (PalmOS) to the iPhone 3G.

I would like to know, though, how they measured this. Does the iPhone share of 66% reflect the number of pages accessed, the number of bytes transferred, the number of unique visitors, …?

By: Scotty

Scotty — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:46:51 +0000

After using my own Storm over the weekend: I’m not surprised.

The iPhone smokes the Storm at web browsing.

The other item, apps bought since Friday: iPhone 4, Storm 0.

Apple makes apps easy to find, easy to buy, easy to install and easy to get rid of.

I was stunned this morning when I grabbed the WSJ app for the Storm off your posting about “Must Have Apps”. Then when I launched it the app told me it was out of date and offered to download the new version. Then after grabbing that it told me I’d have to reboot the Storm to finish installing! Reboot? I literally did a double take to make sure I wasn’t holding the Fuze in my hands.

I’m not very impressed so far with the progress since my last Blackberry, a 7130e.

And of course: why is the battery in the Storm removable? Because you need to in order to make it work again. I’ve already had the battery out twice to get things like the Internet to work again. :-(