“Throughout December, iOS’s Safari carved out a 52 percent share of the mobile market, down from 54 percent in November and 61 percent in October, but still [comfortably] in the lead,” Lance Whitney reports for CNET. “Google’s Android browser ended December with a 16 percent share, a dip from the prior two months.”
“Drilling down further, the iPhone accounted for 25 percent of all mobile browsing and the iPad 24 percent, leaving the iPod Touch with 2 percent,” Whitney reports. “Nestled in second place between iOS and Android was Java ME (Micro Edition), a mobile platform found predominantly on feature phones.”
Whitney reports, “Smartphones have continued to surge in popularity this past year. But less-pricey feature phones still hold a fair chunk of the mobile marketplace as evidenced by Java ME’s 21 percent share in December.”
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If Android is so hot, why has Java ME overtaken it?
Wait till the courts start weighing in…
I suppose there is also the possibility that these figures are skewed anyway. Users of other platforms might have to use browsers more to do things that iOS users would do within dedicated apps. Paints a picture though.
They are selling iPads like grazy! =D
I can say that my sister and her first daughter have an android phone, while my brother in law just got his 4s and their second daughter has a 4, the iPhones surf the net the androids do not..
If Siri continues to grow and expands the use of off load web search to other sites, Wolfram Al
If Apple continues to expand on Siri’s core function of replacing many search queries through Google. Is it expected to have a diminishing growth of Safari’s browser market share? Will they modify the method of tracking Apple’s search growth by the browser and known sites Siri directs automated request through and the sites growth patterns over time? Since Siri is changing the way some users are obtaining information. A decrease in the browser may simply mean that Siri is handling more. Is this even considered since Siri Beta has been active for such a short period of time? Makes me question the reduction in market share for Apple.
Very good point I’ve thought of before.
Also, how are Apps that use the Internet tracked?
I looked at Netmarketshare’s web site and did not find a clear explanation of this possibility.
For example: Many of the TV network apps, News apps, Facebook…
Just looking on my iPhone: Weather, (hell, that’s a huge amount of traffic), Maps, GasBuddy, eBay, IMDb, AllRecipes (cookbooks), Fandango…
There is a bunch a traffic generated by these, but not thru the traditional web browser. Is any of this traffic counted.
Would love to hear from ESPN a breakdown of mobile traffic.