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IPhone Accounts For 50 Percent Of U.S. Mobile Web Traffic; Android At 5 Percent

10 pointsby nickbabout 16 years ago

2 comments

eliabout 16 years ago
Actually, the iPhone does NOT generate 50% of US mobile traffic.<p><a href="http://wapreview.com/blog/?p=3383" rel="nofollow">http://wapreview.com/blog/?p=3383</a><p><i>The 50% number refers to the Apple device's share of ad requests from smartphones. Smartphones as a group make up 33% of total U.S. ad requests so the iPhone's true share of US mobile web traffic is about 17%. Actually it's somewhat less than that as Ad Mob's iPhone numbers include requests from iPhone applications as well as browsing.</i><p>And that's not even considering the severe sample bias in only compiling data from sites that use AdMob's mobile ad service.<p>This is why blog journalism gets a bad rap -- repeating a claim they read on another site without actually reading the report they linked to.
shimiabout 16 years ago
The article says that Android holds 5% of the total of the smartphones market, and iPhone accounts for 50% of the web traffic, but doesn't state its market share.<p>The title require some adjustment.