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iPhone gaining traction in UK
Currently in lead in the UK, Nokia may be given a run for its money as the iPhone is set to be the number one mobile web browsing device. According to iTWire and StatCounter, the iPhone took 0.06 percent of the total internet browser marketshare in the UK for March 2008. According to StatCounter, the iPhone definitely has some work cut out, if it is to surpass Nokia's 0.15 percent market share to date as of March. iPhone is currently in second place with it's 0.06 percent (which goes up to 0.09 percent if iPod touch browsing is also figured in). But that is still way ahead of the Blackberry with it's 0.02 percent.
[via iTWire]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Christian A. Str?n said 7:47PM on 3-25-2008
I'd be very surprised if this hasn't changed within the summer. The iPhone is constantly gaining ground, and pretty much everyone that has one uses the browser.
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Josh* said 8:23PM on 3-25-2008
It's the best mobile browsing interface outside of a laptop, so yeah, no surpise there.
Apple have really ramped up marketing, too. I see an iPhone ad almost every ad break on some channels...
Still waiting for the 32GB 3G model... my 16GB iPt + Nokia N95 w/Joikuspot are filling the gap in the meantime!
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Eli said 8:28PM on 3-25-2008
Do you realize how very little 0.15% is? It's either 15% or 0.15, but not both. That's close to a thousandth of the market, and I'm sure Nokia has more than that.
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arcadeKid said 3:22AM on 3-26-2008
If you had read the article it stated "total internet browser marketshare". If you really believe that Nokia dominate internet browsing usage then go and crawl back under the rock you came from. Read the articles before you go abusing tuaw next time.
James said 9:22PM on 3-25-2008
Eli - read the article. It's about all web browsing, not just mobile browsing. That's why Internet Explorer has 53% of the market.
What's interesting for me is that mobile browsing is still very much a minority activity - all the mobile browsers combined still only add up to a quarter of a percent!
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Eli said 5:21PM on 3-26-2008
And... I'm totally wrong. Sorry, Corey!
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p_toolan said 2:28PM on 11-23-2008
Just so you know for the future, you really ought to be using 'its' not 'it's' for the possessive pronoun here.
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