According to AdMob’s latest report, Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android accounted for 81% of mobile ad impressions on smartphones in the US in the fourth quarter of 2009. Thats a jump of over 55% from the first quarter of 2009. Most of that growth comes from the Android, which has almost doubled its market share from the third quarter to 27%. As for the iPhone, it has 54% in the US.
The smartphone industry will blast off in coming years, thats to Android’s additional fuel.
There is this app discovery service on Facebook called Mplayit that has come out with an interesting discovery, ‘iPhone, Android and Blackberry users use the same apps’. Here is that report. Mplayit tracked 42,000 visitors and the apps they preferred for a set of ‘genres’. TUAW covered this news:
Turns out that for the various categories, the same cross-platform apps tended to be the most popular on the different platforms. Evernote topped the charts for Lists and Notes, Shazam and Pandora were on all three lists for music, and apps like Yelp and Facebook sat high on the chart for multiple platforms. In the end, an app is an app is an app, “app”arently, and it doesn’t really matter which platform you’re using it on.
In the “Utilities” section, things were different for each platform. Bump is the most popular for iPhone, Google Goggles was most popular on Android, and Vlingo won on Blackberry.
After yesterday’s comparison chart from iSmashphone, today BillShrink blog has put up this comparison chart where specs from the iPhone, the Droid, the Nexus One and the Pre has been placed side by side. The chart not only compares specs like storage capacity, battery life, and camera, but it also breaks down the total cost of the devices over the lives of their contracts which should be helpful for buyers in the US.
This was way back in 2007, when the first generation iPhone was about to be launched. The pre-iPhone coverage and rumors were running high and it was some kind of an iPod clone everyone were expecting. Man… it would have been really really tragic if this would have come true. [via - Gizmodo]
Just like 2007, by now everyone knows that Apple tablet is coming and this time again, not many would get it right. No one can predict Apple. And, we need to just wait for a month for the iSlate to become a reality . BTW, would the iSlate look like this?
Flurry, the Mobile App Analytics firm, revealed yesterday that the iPhone and iPod touch sales have nearly doubled from November and this holiday season has seen iPod Touch’s sales skyrocket along with iPhone. Check this chart.
The company says that over Christmas, downloads from iPod touches exceeded those from iPhones by 172% – and that downloads from third-generation iPod touches jumped by 900% on Christmas Day itself, compared to the average of previous Fridays in December. December was a record-breaking month for the App Store, with downloads increasing by more than 50% compared to November based on average daily download figures.
This indicates that iPod touch sales skyrocketed leading up to Christmas, helping generate major gains in App Store downloads.
iPhone continues to amaze not only the US but the entire globe. Gartner shared its report covering worldwide mobile phone sales numbers for the 3rd quarter of 2009. Apple surprisingly showed up in the 3rd place under the smartphone category with 17.1% market share.
Apple’s worldwide smartphone share reached 17 per cent as iPhone sales totalled 7 million units in the third quarter of 2009 following the continued rollout of the iPhone 3GS in new countries. Its ASP is holding steady and sales in the fourth quarter should be even stronger as Apple starts selling in China, through one additional carrier in the UK, and in an additional 16 countries.
I believe iPhone will continue to grow quarter on quarter, thanks to just two features – the iPhone OS and the App Store, without which iPhone wouldnt have been able to challenge the might of RIM’s and Nokia’s. iPhone OS according to me is at least 2-3 years ahead of other smartphones OS’s currently in the market.
The market share of iPhone, Mac OS X and Safari has been steadily rising, according to Net Application. And from September to October ‘09, iPhone had 0.37% of the global market share in October, compared to .35% in September. Among operating systems, Mac OS X had 5.27% of the global market share in October, compared to 5.12% in August. Safari had 4.42% in October, compared to 4.24% in September.
You cant miss this video guys. Jonathan Ive, Apple’s Senior VP of Industrial Design talks about design principles behind iMac, iPhone etc., in depth. He is the person who designed products like the iPhone and iPod, the iMac, the unibody MacBook Pro and many more products at Apple. Awesome video:
China Unicom is targeting a big time launch date of Oct 15th 2009 for iPhone. Unwired View reports that the pricing will be set at 1,999 yuan (US$293) for the 8 GB model and 2,999 yuan (US$439) for the 16 GB model. Both models will require two-year contracts with pricing beginning at 186 yuan (US$27) per month.
If the rumors of the price points above are true, I think that sales should be pretty brisk. 690 million strong mobile user base is actually bigger then the U.S. and Western Europe combined.And, if you consider that there already are around 1.5 million grey market iPhones in China, which were bought at an average price of $680, the deal offered by China Unicom sounds pretty darn good.
Hi, I have been using this awesome invention called the Apple iPhone from November 2007 and have gone nutzzz over it. Nuts to an extent that I started this blog which talks just about iPhone and nothing else.
This blog of mine has been getting tremendous response and is being followed by all kinds of mobile phone users from all over the globe. Most of the traffic comes from the US and Europe. Thank you all for making this blog a success :)
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. BTW, would the iSlate look like this?
