The Net Applications quarterly browser market share report came out this past weekend, and the results are pretty staggering as far as the mobile space is concerned. The iPhone, which has only been on sale for a mere five months, represents 0.9% of the total browser market share. While at first glance this number may seem rather low, this figure represents all browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc.
To put a little perspective on this, consider the Windows CE platform, which comprises all of the Windows Mobile platform devices. Windows CE garnered 0.6%, giving it 2/3 of iPhone’s reach in the mobile browser market. Still need more? Well, Windows Mobile devices have been for sale since 1996, and Microsoft shipped over three million of them in Q1 2007 alone. Apple, on the other hand, as mentioned earlier only released the iPhone about five months ago and has sold somewhere around 1.5 million to date.
In simple terms, the iPhone is responsible for almost one out of every 1,000 page views, and this figure will only go higher. I currently use both an iPhone and a Windows Mobile 6 device, the T-Mobile Dash, and without question the Internet experience on the iPhone is light years ahead.
Get your act together Microsoft. Make a mobile browser that actually shows Web pages how they’re supposed to look.
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a.k.a Tmobile sucks