iOS is still the titan of mobile browsing. Down from 54% in November and 61% in October. 25% coming from iPhone, 24% iPad and iPod touch just 2%. Android is just 16% coming mostly from phones.
Next month should be telling to see if holiday sales gives iOS a larger lead. And we’ll see if the Kindle Fire boosts Android’s overall web browsing percent.
Source: NetMarketshare
CNET seems about as frustrated as I am about iOS and Android stats:
There are lots of metrics you can use to compare the two platforms, with new factoids arriving daily – some of them direct from Apple and Google, but more from research firms and other third parties. I decided to gather some recent competitive numbers to see if considering all of them at once helped to clarify the competitive situation.
Here is the breakdown from his research:
Read the full post for sources
When looking to understand mobile platform marketshare and what devices to support, forget press releases about device sales and activations. The only number that matters is actual usage. App usage data is often unreliable, so actual devices accessing the Internet is always the best indicator of actual platform usage.
For October 2011 here is how each of the mobile platforms fared according to NetMarketshare
In other words if you had $100,000 to spend in 2012 on a global mobile strategy:
PPK has culled together the top mobile browsers in 12 countries around the world. The report is spilt up into two parts, both available now.