Business Technology : IPhones Take Over the Internet
We’ve always felt that the iPhone’s game-changing feature was its Web browser. Now we have proof: iPhone owners were responsible for nearly one out of every 1,000 Web page views last month. This erases any doubt that the future of mobile devices most certainly includes the Web.
Many phones have Web browsers, but most of the time these were made specifically for mobile devices and only give phone owners access to watered-down versions of Web sites. The iPhone has the same browser as Apple’s computers, meaning iPhone owners can see the same version of Web pages people see on their PCs.
IPhone owners embraced the browser to the extent that they represented 0.09% of all Web pages viewed in November. That doesn’t sound like much, but consider that through September, Apple had only sold 1.4 million iPhones. As a point of comparison, devices running every version of Windows mobile operating system combined made up 0.06% of Web page views. Companies have been making mobile devices that run Windows since 1996, according to Computer World, and three million of the devices were shipped in the first quarter of 2007 alone, according to research company Gartner. Here’s some more perspective: By our calculations, iPhone owners are about 90 times more likely to view a Web page than the typical Internet user, of whom there are approximately 1.25 billion worldwide.
Small device makers have been pushing this agenda for years.
found by Peter Inova
Geez Mustard, i know they had a math error. They misinterpreted their own data. So did you.
“Note: The original version of this post had a math error in it, which has since been fixed.”
#33 – MM MY, rather…
“…they call me Mellow Yellow”
(quite right-ly)
Oh, yeah? Well, they call me Mediocre Ochre!
>>Geez Mustard, i know they had a math error.
>>They misinterpreted their own data.
>>So did you.
What are you talking about, Jimbo? I misinterpreted their data? I was the one who flagged the “90 times more likely” as being bogus, as it would have iPhone users surfing the web 45 hours in a 24 hour day.
And that “correction” was not there yesterday when I read the article.
yeThe way the story is (re-)written now, it kind of changes the whole point of the story. In the original, iPhone users were swamping the web at a rate MUCH greater than average internet users. The new version just says that they’re using the internet. At a rate similar to (we guess, although they don’t say) the average user. Ho-hum.
Kinda lame when a business publication like the WSJ can’t get simple math like that right.
Maybe it has something to do with Mister Fox News buying the paper.