NEWS: iPhone surfs to mobile web domination

<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/02/iphone_february_stats/>

The iPhone dominated the market for mobile web surfing last month,
and there were relatively healthy showings from Google's Android and
Microsoft's Windows Mobile.

Net Applications found Apple's handheld status symbol accounted for
66.61 per cent of mobile traffic browsing the web during February.

The phone's nearest competitor was Microsoft's Windows Mobile, with
6.91 per cent of traffic.

Making a strong play was Google's Android, which tied with Symbian
for third place with 6.15 per cent of traffic. While that's a long
way behind the iPhone, it's not bad considering Android is just over
a year old and Symbian has been in the market for longer.

It's the latest demonstration of the iPhone's pull. ...

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On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:53:35 -0800, John Navas
<spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote:

[Copied from my posting in ba.internet.]

><http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/02/iphone_february_stats/>
>
> The iPhone dominated the market for mobile web surfing last month,
> and there were relatively healthy showings from Google's Android and
> Microsoft's Windows Mobile.
>
> Net Applications found Apple's handheld status symbol accounted for
> 66.61 per cent of mobile traffic browsing the web during February.

<http://marketshare.hitslink.com/mobile-phones.aspx?qprid=55>
<http://marketshare.hitslink.com/mobile-phones.aspx?qprid=59>
No breakdown? Over what time period? My guess(tm) is that most of it
is iTune downloads. I also can't tell if the percentages are a
measure of traffic, number connections, connection time, or billing
percentages. The only clue is the title on the 2nd URL which mentions
"percentage of total USERS". So, what's a user? Probably a unique IP
addresses, which cellular providers juggle with every connection.

> The phone's nearest competitor was Microsoft's Windows Mobile, with
> 6.91 per cent of traffic.

Perhaps the not so minor detail that a data plan is MANDATORY with the
iPhone might inspire iPHone users to do some expensive cellular web
surfing. Meanwhile, the uptake for data plans for other handsets is
currently minimal (I'll try to find the numbers but as recall, it's
very low). Of course, that problem will soon be solved because
Verizon and possibly other vendors are now requiring a data plan with
their high end handsets. I expect their numbers to climb as
non-iPhone users find something to do with their mandatory data plans.

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On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:16:37 -0800, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
wrote in <r1qoq4h7polul4m3bnbe6ue7sph24shri7@4ax.com>:

>No breakdown? Over what time period? My guess(tm) is that most of it
>is iTune downloads. ...

In watching iPhone users I'm seeing much more surfing than iTunes
downloads.

>Perhaps the not so minor detail that a data plan is MANDATORY with the
>iPhone might inspire iPHone users to do some expensive cellular web
>surfing.

Sure.

>Meanwhile, the uptake for data plans for other handsets is
>currently minimal

Yep.

>Of course, that problem will soon be solved because
>Verizon and possibly other vendors are now requiring a data plan with
>their high end handsets. I expect their numbers to climb as
>non-iPhone users find something to do with their mandatory data plans.

Not necessarily -- Web ease of use on the iPhone is miles ahead of
almost all other (not so) smartphones.

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On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:38:15 -0800, John Navas
<spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote:

>Not necessarily -- Web ease of use on the iPhone is miles ahead of
>almost all other (not so) smartphones.

Not miles ahead. Perhaps a few meters ahead. Navigation and
Multi-touch page manipulation is really nice on the iPhone. It's
really easy to move around from page to page. So much for the good
part.

The bad part is that it takes two hands to do most everything. It
would be much easier to just use a stylus, Getting rid of stylus was
probably a design objective for the iPhone. No need for giant buttons
with a stylus. Apparently other agree:
<http://www.tenonedesign.com/stylus.php>
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvnfXXulOIY>

The lack of a keyboard seems to be an issue with the text messaging
crowd. Yet another hack:
<http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/11/05/omg-iphone-keyboard-omg/>

The glossy screen is cool looking. Comparing the iPhone with my
XV6700 in bright sunlight was illuminating. My XV6700 was not
brighter, but certainly more readable than the iPhone (due to glossy
glare problems).

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