Applelinks iPhone News Reader - Wednesday, March 19, 2008
iPhone Increases Market Share in Mobile Browser Wars According to StatCounter
Apple's iPhone Drives Huge Increase in Mobile Web, Video, Music Usage
Lotus Notes comes to the iPhone
iPhone Crushes Competition In Smartphone Usage
iPhone Increases Market Share in Mobile Browser Wars According to StatCounter
[Press Release]
Apple has increased its share of the Internet browser market in the US by 64% between December and March according to StatCounter, which provides organisations and individuals with a free website visitor statistics tool.(1) Globally iPhone/iTouch has more than doubled its share of the Internet browser market from 0.03% to 0.08%.
In March iPhone and iTouch increased their share of the total browser market in the US from 0.14% in December to 0.23% according to StatCounter which tracks in excess of nine billion pageloads per month over its network of two million websites. If one excludes iTouch from the figures then iPhone's market share of Internet browsing in the US (0.18%) is still well ahead of Nokia (0.01%). However, Nokia still maintains a significant lead over Apple in the global market with 0.25% to 0.08%.
"The key message is that iPhone is more than living up to its claims of being a user friendly Internet browser, unlike many other cell phones," commented Aodhan Cullen, founder and CEO of StatCounter. He said that iPhone web browsing peaked in the US on Christmas Day at 0.07%. "Presumably this was due to people trying out their new Christmas present combined perhaps with not accessing their PCs that day."
The StatCounter analysis finds that Microsoft Internet Explorer still leads the browser market overall with 44.5% market share in the US. But it is facing real competition from open source based Firefox which grew to 43.9% of the US browser market. Globally Internet Explorer is well ahead at 59% with Firefox on 33%.
The StatCounter analysis was based on a sample of 372 million page views globally from December 07 to March 08, including 71 million US page views.
(1) Note: Figures include iPhone and iTouch
For information on this real-time, user-friendly, and free visitor stats tool, visit:
http://www.statcounter.com
Apple's iPhone Drives Huge Increase in Mobile Web, Video, Music Usage
Alley Insider's Dan Frommer says:
The most important thing about the iPhone isn't the sleek design, the touchscreen, iTunes integration, or any other single feature. It's the way that people use the device. Specifically, it's that people actually use it to do stuff besides making phone calls. Examples:
Almost 85% of iPhone owners browse the Web on their phones, versus 58% of the U.S. smartphone market and 13.1% of the overall U.S. mobile market, according to mobile research firm M:Metrics.
Some 31% of iPhone owners watch mobile TV or video, like Google's built-in YouTube software, compared to 4.6% of the overall market.
About 20% of iPhone owners access Facebook, versus 1.5% of the overall market.
And 74% of iPhone owners listened to music on their phones, compared to 28% of the smartphone market and 6.7% of the overall market.
To read more, click here.
Lotus Notes comes to the iPhone
IDG News Service's Nancy Gohring reports:
iPhone customers who use Lotus Notes at work won't be left out anymore with a new offering from Sybase iAnywhere.
Sybase iAnywhere is set to announce on Tuesday that it is adding support for the iPhone in its Information Anywhere Suite, initially only for e-mail. That means that companies using Lotus Notes will be able to securely push e-mail messages to iPhone users.
Apple recently announced that it plans to support Microsoft's ActiveSync technology in its second-generation iPhone software so that iPhone users can receive Exchange e-mail. But the announcement did not include a way for Lotus Notes users to receive e-mail on iPhones, so Sybase hopes to fill that gap.
For the full report click here.
iPhone Crushes Competition In Smartphone Usage
Ars Technica's Charles Jade reports:
Analytics firm M:Metrics has a report that confirms what every iPhone user likely already knows: other phones suck at web browsing.
"The iPhone has certainly delivered on its hype," said Mark Donovan, senior analyst, M:Metrics. "Beyond a doubt, this device is compelling consumers to interact with the mobile Web, delivering off-the-charts usage from everything to text messaging to mobile video."
To read more, click here.
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