“Android may be the smartphone champ, but Apple’s iOS is tops in mobile Web traffic, at least according to a report out today from analyst Gene Munster,” Lance Whitney reports for CNET.
MacDailyNews Take: What does that mean, Lance, “the smartphone champ?” Does units shipped make you the “champ” even on the back of unending, margin-sapping Buy One Get X Free promotions? Why isn’t profit share among, if not the top, criteria for being “champ?” Is it because that would make Apple champ because they own some 70% of the profits in the smartphone market? So, who’s really the “smartphone champ, Lance? Those who flood the market in order to reap pennies and bolster unit shipment numbers or those who take the lion’s share of the market’s available profits? Ask yourself that next time before you delude your readership with flippant, empty, disingenuous statements.
Whitney continues, “For April, iOS captured 69 percent of all the traffic analyzed by Piper Jaffray, leaving Android in second place with 26.5 percent. Those numbers showed an increase from March when iOS accounted for 66.4 percent and Android for 28.7 percent.”
MacDailyNews Take: Perhaps, Lance, when referring to Android in your opening sentence, you meant to type “chump?”
Whitney continues, “The data hardly offers a full picture of overall Web traffic. The report itself looked at just 10 of the top 100 mobile Web sites, which included Answers.com, Tumblr, ChaCha, Examiner, LinkedIn, Bleacher Report, Hubpages, White Pages, Squidoo, and Dictionary.com. However, other reports have uncovered similar results. A December report from Web analytics firm Chitika pegged iOS’s share of mobile traffic at 67 percent and Android’s at 33 percent.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Brawndo Drinker” for the heads up.]
Related articles:
comScore: Apple outgrew both Samsung and Google’s Android in U.S. smartphone market share – May 3, 2013
Yankee Group: iPhone ownership in the U.S. will top Android by 2015 – April 26, 2013
Yankee Group: Apple continues to eat Samsung’s lunch; customer loyalty will drive iPhone ownership past Android’s peak – April 26, 2013
Yankee Group: Apple to gain additional U.S. smartphone share over Samsung in 2013 – March 20, 2013
Apple’s iPhone user gains again out-pace Android in the U.S. – April 5, 2013
Why Apple’s new iPhone can’t lose; as with all iPhones, next-gen likely to become best-selling smartphone of all time – April 4, 2013
Apple increases lead over Samsung, gains on Google’s Android in U.S. smartphone market share – April 4, 2013
Analyst: Apple iPhone 5 got over 5X times as many tweets as Samsung’s lackluster Galaxy S4 – March 27, 2013
Yankee Group: Apple to gain additional U.S. smartphone share over Samsung in 2013 – March 20, 2013
With 78% share, Apple’s iOS tightening its grip on the enterprise and taking share from Android – March 8, 2013
Apple rules the skies with 84% in-flight share vs. Android’s 16% – March 7, 2013
Apple iPad continues domination with over 80% usage share in U.S. and Canada – March 7, 2013
comScore: Google’s Android, Samsung continue to lose U.S. share to Apple’s iOS, iPhone – March 6, 2013
World’s best-selling smartphone: Apple iPhone 5; iPhone 4S #2, third place Samsung Galaxy 3 brings up rear – February 20, 2013
Apple iOS dominates mobile video viewing with 60% share vs. Android’s 32% – February 13, 2013
Android’s Web share down 13% since November; Apple’s iOS now over 60% – February 1, 2013
Android’s unit share growth has not hurt Apple’s profit share – February 26, 2013
Apple iOS dominates mobile video viewing with 60% share vs. Android’s 32% – February 13, 2013
Android’s Web share down 13% since November; Apple’s iOS now over 60% – February 1, 2013
IDC: Apple dominates worldwide tablet market with 43.6% unit share – January 31, 2013
The Android engagement paradox – November 26, 2012
People buy more Android phone units and do less with them vs. Apple’s revolutionary iPhone – November 14, 2012
Study: iPhone users vastly outspent Android users on apps, respond much better to ads – August 20, 2012
Apple utterly dominates mobile device market with 6% market share – and 77% of the profits – August 6, 2012