“We’ve heard the rumors that many iPhones are being used outside the officially sanctioned countries. So, we decided to check it out and surprise, surprise, it’s true. The iPhone has a presence in almost every country on earth,” Net Applications reports.
View Net Applications’ list of countries and the overall web-browsing usage share of the iPhone for each country here.
MacDailyNews Take: Who knew iPhones were so popular for Web browsing in Equatorial Guinea?
Related notes from Apple’s Q1 08 earnings conference call:
• Apple “very happy with all of the iPhone launches so far” (U.S., UK, France, Germany)
• 4 million iPhones to date; Apple “very happy with iPhone momentum”
• Apple sees iPhone unlocking as a “good problem to have” and is a sign of iPhone’s popularity
• “Significant” numbers of iPhones sold with intention to unlock, but Apple is unsure how to measure as activation sometimes waits for existing contracts to expire, etc.
This chart is PERCENT of WEBBROWSING. So, if the country as a whole has little internet infrastructure, then webbrowsing over a cell network might be comparatively high. This does not mean that there are tons of iPhones there, but that iPhones are one way to get on the net, where getting on the net may be difficult with traditional landline networks.
Look at equatorial guinea. I’d wager that this isn’t just lots of iPhones, but also that internet usage there is remarkably low by traditional means.
The first iPhone that I saw in the wild was in Mexico City