"Todd Allcock" <elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> wrote in message
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> > "Todd Allcock" <elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> wrote in message
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> >> > The iPhone (and iPad) together with the upgrades to 3G networks have
> > made
> >> > it much simpler and much more popular. The iPhone brought mobile web
> >> > browsing to the general public, and it is still the mostly widely
used
> >> > device for the task by a huge margin. The March 2010 numbers for the
UK
> >> > have the iPhone at 70.2% of mobile web users. Every other mobile
> >> > company
> >> > has since been rushing around trying to make a clone.
> >>
> >> Still quoting AdMob stats? AdMob includes ads served up within iPhone
> >> and
> >> Android _apps_ as "mobile data usage" which heavily skews the data
> >> towards
> >> iOS and now Android. Even AdMob admits its data is useful only for
trend
> >> analysis, and not hard market share or usage statistics.
> >>
> >> http://metrics.admob.com/2009/10/pla...cs-in-context/
> >
> > ALL surveys / polls / studies / statistics are skewed and faulty ... but
> > unfortunately there are too many idiots around who insist on numbers,
> > which
> > is why I gave one.
>
> Quoting the current usage statistics don't support your contention that
few
> used mobile web browsing in the past. You might as well try to prove that
> since personal computers make typing much easier than in the past, few
books
> were written prior to 1980, when people had to use typewriters and pens.
>
> Opera, the browser maker, regularly publishes a report called The State of
> the Mobile Web. The following link, from April 2008, records the number
of
> page views transcoded by Opera's servers by Opera Mini users.
>
> http://www.opera.com/smw/2008/04/#chart_pages
>
> It shows a steady rise in usage, both pre- and post- iPhone. (Keep in
mind
> this is just the mobile web usage of Opera Mini users, which typically
> excludes smartphones, which have their own browsers.) Even in June 2007,
> the last month pre-iPhone, Opera Mini users hit 3/4 of a billion web pages
> that June.
>
> http://www.nielsenmobile.com/documents/CriticalMass.pdf (Warning- this
PDF
> is 1.5MB, and I know you've got issues with your ISP.) Nielsen research,
> the guys and gals behind American Television ratings, published this
report
> in July 2008. It says there were 22.4 million active mobile internet
users
> in the US in July 2006, 29.7 million in May 2007, and 40.4 in May 2008.
A
> significant jump in that 1st iPhone year. Do you want to guess what was
the
> handset used by more mobile web users in the US in Q1 2008?
>
> Nope. The Motorola RAZR, used by 10% of US mobile web users. The iPhone
> was second, at 4%.
>
>
> >> While certainly much more popular today, mobile browsing has been
around
> > for
> >> quite some time, and has been used by quite a few people even before
the
> >> iPhone and its iPhoney successors. If it were as unpopular as you seem
> >> to
> >> think, why were there literally thousands of mobile sites in existence
> >> pre-iPhone? Because web developers had nothing better to do?
> >
> > Of course there were, but the devices made it difficult and tedious,
which
> > is why mobile web browsing didn't really happen until the iPhone came
> > along
> > and made it MUCH easier.
> >
> > But, believe whatever you want ... I'm done going around the same
circle.
> > :-\
>
> Me too, except I backed up my point.
Again: believe whatever you want ... I'm DONE going around the same circle.
:-\