DISQUS

ITrush · 5 months ago

Hmm.. do we have to expect more? Lets see if it'll rise above 25%..

JohnAtkinson · 5 months ago

Surprising to see Android overtake windows mobile so quickly, especially when it seems that most "normal people" don't know what Android is.

And wow - 45 million iPhones & iPod Touch devices sold to date - If you divide that by the 1.5 billion app store downloads Apple reports, that translates to an average of 33 iPhone apps downloaded for each user - if my math is correct.

Does that seem believable ?

Sanjay Sharma · 5 months ago

Not this again. They are only referring to Admob measured activity... If the application or website does not have Admob's software installed, its not measured. That means this statistic isn't representative of the total population of mobile usage. When will these stupid headlines stop?

Anand Iyer · 5 months ago

+1 to Sanjay's comment. This report is based purely on AdMob's activity on these devices and is not representative of the entire smartphone market.

TedHoward · 5 months ago

As with all statistics, you must keep the sample population in mind. Your presentation of the facts implies that one can extrapolate from one sample population to a different population.

If I understand things correctly, AdMob only sees numbers for people surfing the web on their phone. That's a very limited population as compared to all people with phones. I have a Windows Mobile phone as a phone+PDA - no data plan. If I had a data plan then I would only check email, not surf the web, and that's how all Windows Mobile users I know use their phones. If your screen isn't big, then you won't surf the web; just look at the phones featured ad admob.com. If your mobile web browser (the current IE) won't render html well, then you won't be surfing the web.

AdMob is serving its own interests by ignoring how limited their data is. Bloggers and journalists should be motivated to educate and inform the public, which means pointing out these limitations. On the other hand, anyone whose job is to look at such data should be intelligent enough to see through the fluff of such PR and understand the true meaning of the numbers.

ez · 5 months ago

Of course this analysis does not tell anything about overall phone shares
but it still shows that windows is currently not able to strengthen its position
at mobile internet usage.
If you also consider how important internet is today on desktops and laptops this
data still provides enough to do some estimations.

rkorba · 5 months ago

@Tedhoward -- exactly -- big selection bias inherent in admob's network.