“Yesterday we reported that a new Kantar smartphone study found that Apple’s iPhone 5S and 5C were the top selling smartphones in Britain with Samsung’s Galaxy S5 a distant third,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple. “Today, in a new study published by Chitika, we’re able to see that Britain’s iPhone users account for close to 50% of the country’s web traffic.”
“Similar[ly] to what we’ve observed in the North American marketplace, UK-based Apple users generate the greatest share of that nation’s smartphone Web traffic,” Purcher reports. “With one or more new iPhone models on the horizon for this fall, Chitika notes that ‘it’s highly probable that Apple will retain its near-fifty percent usage share at year’s end.'”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
There is a huge difference between 50% of web traffic and 50% of smartphone traffic.
Should not confuse it, or us.
I was wondering which they were talking about, too…one sentence talks about the “country’s web traffic,” another talks about the “nation’s smartphone Web traffic.” Apples and oranges.
And no blackberries.
Granted, what is stated could be less ambiguous.
However, it’s certainly true that if “Britain’s iPhone users account for close to 50% of the country’s web traffic.” then it’s also the case that “UK-based Apple users generate the greatest share of that nation’s smartphone Web traffic,” r
Of course, these are “journalists” we’re talking about here, and Apple-biased ones at that, so the report has to be taken with a grain of salt.
Another reason why Britain is a great ally.
If America drowns itself in the pool of Plutocracy, I’m headed to GB.
Cor, Blimey!
That tallies with experience. I see iPhones *everywhere* over here. Samsung and Blackberry . . . not so much.