BlackBerry overtakes Apple in Mobile Wars

bigbazza · Dec 1, 2010

From an email I received today. If you are in the market for this type of device, the following may interest you.

BlackBerry overtakes Apple in Mobile Wars
Google's Android Gaining Market Share

Boston, USA and Dublin, Ireland; Wednesday 1st December, 2010:

BlackBerry OS overtook Apple's iOS for the first time in the US in November in terms of mobile internet usage according to web analytics company, StatCounter.

The company's research arm, StatCounter Global Stats finds that for the first time in the US BlackBerry OS at 34.3% overtook Apple's iOS which recorded 33% in November.

Google's Android is rapidly gaining and has almost tripled internet market share from 8.2% last November to 23.8% this year.
Apple's iOS has fallen from 51.9% to 33% over the same period.

"These figures suggest that developers should not be developing solely for the iPhone to the exclusion of BlackBerry and Android," commented Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter. He added that, if current trends continue, BlackBerry and Android combined are on course to become twice the size of iOS as regards mobile internet usage in the next year.

Commenting on Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7 he said that it was not yet registering significantly in terms of internet usage but would be interesting to observe over the next year. "This data demonstrates that there is a battle royal already going on in the smartphone market for the consumer and business internet user. You can never underestimate Microsoft but it looks to have its work cut out."

BlackBerry's US lead is not replicated in terms of worldwide share according to the StatCounter data. Globally Symbian OS leads with 31.9% followed by iOS (21.9%), BlackBerry OS (19.3%) and Android (11.6%).

StatCounter Global Stats are based on aggregate data collected by StatCounter on a sample exceeding 15 billion page views per month collected from across the StatCounter network of more than three million websites. StatCounter, which provides free website traffic information, publishes worldwide internet usage trends via StatCounter Global Stats, a free online research tool.

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For individual country analysis go to:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-200911-201011

Further information on our analysis is available at:
http://gs.statcounter.com/faq

About StatCounter

StatCounter, a free online visitor stats tool, was founded in 1999. It offers its members the chance to grow and improve their online businesses by allowing them to monitor the number of hits to their website; the geographical location of visitors; the various pages a visitor views; keywords used to find the site plus other features. For information on this real-time, user-friendly, and free visitor stats tool, please visit http://statcounter.com.
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Bazza

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I have had an iPhone and now an HTC Android based phone but I still miss my old blackberrys due to the strong design and most of all a real keyboard. The touch screen thing just doesn't do it for me. I may be getting a Blackberry as my next phone. The problem with Apple's iPhone now is that they used to be the top as far as technology and apps on their phones but now everyone has caught up which I think really hurts their appeal.

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