iPhone and iPod touch continue to dominate smartphone web traffic

Is this really any surprise. Have you used Safari on the iPhone? It is great and you can try it out at http://playitouch.com/

proving once again, when you snooze cell companies, you lose- before the iPhone, cells in the US didn't compare to what was overseas in Japan- so many here begging for all the cool looks and functions of the asian models.

Then the iPhone hits, and there are 100 touch-screen, app, button-less, mp3 player phones - all copycats sharing a smaller share of the market.

Nice job Apple- eat it competition.

Please consider that this is a list of *operating systems*. As you say in the title, "smartphone traffic." But "smartphones" are not all mobile web traffic or even all mobile phone web traffic.

I put that in quotes because there isn't a great definition; we've been using, "operating systems whose names are branded and visible to the customer."

Is this just a trivium? Not really. Look to page 6 and 7, where U.S. and worldwide traffic is listed. The number three device is ... the RAZR. Which is not reflected in the smart phone list. Nor is, I'm reasonably certain, the #4 (U.S.) or #5 (worldwide) Samsung R450.

Putting it another way. The graph above would predict that RIM (Blackberry) is the #2 manufacturer but they are #4 in this report.

And Apple, in this report, is "only" 29% of U.S. requests. Not 50%. (Nor the 66% recently made popular.) Still dreadfully important, but not what one would take away from this article.

Let's keep in mind that that big chunk of the pie that belongs to the iPhone is not really 100% accurate.

There are ways to change the browser identification on other phones like for example Nokia E71 (which by the way uses the same webkit as iPhone) thus web servers ID these phones as iPhones when in fact they aren't.

Just so you know... :)

Cheers!
RayanMX

i actually read this on my iphone

I never thought that I would use my iPhone _that_ much surfing the net. And apps like easyfind certainly make it even more.

While I think that the iPhone probably does make up a great share of mobile web traffic, I'm not sure I'd trust AdMob as a source of reporting as it seems to be the primary source of advertising income on most "free" or "lite" apps in the app store. I haven't had a lot of experience with apps on a Blackberry, WInMo, etc. but I'd say that AdMob (or rather iPhone developers developing for the cheap@ss masses that we are) have skewed the data due to the sheer number of free apps that use AdMob.