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Apple’s iPhone continues to dominate mobile browsing

Wednesday, April 01, 2009 - 01:52 PM EST

"Apple’s iPhone still has what Net Applications describes as a 'commanding lead' in the smartphone search market," Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.

"As Net Applications measures it — [the mobile device must be able to render HTML pages and javascript; visits to WAP pages are not included] — the iPhone’s share of searches dropped in March to 63.41% from 66.44%," Elmer-DeWitt reports.

"This does not mean that iPhone Web browsing is shrinking, the Web metrics firm notes, because the overall market is growing rapidly," Elmer-DeWitt reports. "But it does mean that Google’s Android, Nokia’s Symbian and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry — in that order — are catching up, although none has yet managed to grab more than a 9% share."

"Android’s growth is particularly striking: up 2.31 points, or 36%, in one month," Elmer-DeWitt reports. "The BlackBerry, which was consigned to the catch-all 'other' category in February, finally emerged in March as a line item of its own, but with only a 2.69% share."

Elmer-DeWitt reports, "WAP (for Wireless Application Protocol) was the Web browsing standard for BlackBerries and other mobile phones – famously dismissed by Steve Jobs as the “baby Web“ — until the iPhone came along and offered a Web browser with HTML and Javascript."

More in the full article here.

Net Applications' "Mobile Browsing by Platform Market Share" is here.

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Apr 01, 09 - 12:56 pm Comment from: twilightmoon

There's all the other phones that have all the supposed "feature checklist" of the iPhone.

And then there's the phone that people actually use.

Apparently there's a difference. Who would have thought?

Apr 01, 09 - 01:02 pm Comment from: Jersey_Trader

When the China deal is done, none of the other smart phones will be able to hold their market share.

Apr 01, 09 - 01:05 pm Comment from: twilightmoon

That's an interesting point Jersey, but how will China be able to control the internet content on the iPhone? That country for some reason believes it has to keep information from it's people. Can they block internet into the iPhone?

Apr 01, 09 - 01:05 pm Comment from: almux

Of course it is... and it's just a beginning!
Myself and many around are sooner or later have to change phone... and it's gonna be for an iPhone!

Apr 01, 09 - 01:05 pm Comment from: 3G User

Oddly enough, my iPhone 3G in march started to lose its connection to AT&T;'s cell towers in the beginning of March, along with my brothers and his friend's phone. I ended up turning off my 3G chip just to keep my phone receiving calls and texts. Since I am usually on EDGE now, my browsing time has significantly shortened. The forums on AT&T;'s site and also Apple's shows that this is a pretty widespread problem. I wonder if this is the reason for the decrease in usage for the iPhone.

Apr 01, 09 - 01:08 pm Comment from: twilightmoon

The best part of this is with no Adobe Flash on the iPhone, the more this figure grows the more pressure it will put on web designers to shy away from closed standards and into open, interoperable web standards.

A world without Adobe Flash, MS ActiveX and Silverlight, and RealNetworks crud.. we can only dream.

Apr 01, 09 - 01:27 pm Comment from: @ twighlight moon

I believe China blocks/filters content at the DNS level, so it shouldn't matter what platform the user is surfing with.

Apr 01, 09 - 02:35 pm Comment from: bon

I couldn't agree with you more, twilightmoon.

Flash has been dragging the 'Net down for way too long now. The fact that the iPhone doesn't support it is a win for everyone (except Adobe).

Apr 01, 09 - 02:54 pm Comment from: twilightmoon

"China blocks/filters content at the DNS level"

Wait isn't that trivial to get around just by choosing a different DNS server?

Apr 01, 09 - 04:21 pm Comment from: igads

twighlight moon - "A world without Adobe Flash, MS ActiveX and Silverlight, and RealNetworks crud.. we can only dream."

Right on! I too have that dream.

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