According to data just released by analytics firm Quantcast, Android and BlackBerry mobile web consumption in the month of February was up while that of the iPhone was down slightly.
Android’s share of North American mobile web consumption was up 8.3% from January 2010, to 15.2% of total mobile web consumption for the month of February. Apple’s iPhone OS share, which so far has seemed untouchable, dropped 3.2% from January to February 2010, while the share for RIM OS (Blackberry) grew 13.2% in that period, to 9.2%.
I wouldn’t start dropping stock in Apple (because of this news alone) as the results are pretty much expected and make sense. The iPhone owns such a large part of the total market that any company which does something positive makes gains on Apple.
What will be really interesting to see is this chart the month after the new BlackBerry Browser is released.
[Via Venture Beat]
There are tens of millions of BlackBerry users that rarely, if ever, browse the web from their BlackBerry. I dare say that the new BlackBerry Browser will cause a significant shift in this chart. Apple will still be number one, but, I doubt that they will keep more than 50% of the total share.
They don’t because using the web on a BB sucks ass.
I don’t disagree with this point on the current BlackBerry Browser, however, if what RIM showed at MWC 2010 turns out to be as good as what everyone says it is, “on par with if not better than mobile safari”, do you think that the millions of BlackBerry users that currently don’t browse the web via their devices, may start to?
A better browser is going to help Robb, but the idea of browsing the web on a Blackberry Tour (or other small screen Blackberry device) is never going to be great due to the size of the screen and the lack of touchscreen on most Blackberry devices.
I use the Blackberry browser every once in a while to check something (sports scores, search google, etc). Even if the browser was more polished I wouldn’t use it anymore. Just too small to do much with.
I agree, a webkit browser along with a big touch screen is the key. My 9700’s screen is far too small compared to my iphone. Launch a touch screen on a carrier other then Verizon, and I will concede.