iPhone dominating mobile web in Americas and Europe

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I think more realistic numbers would be obtained by considering the number of different models of Symbian and Android it tool to give them this share, versus just one iPhone.

You know, this kind of "reporting" is really what makes people call iPhone users fanboys...

Megan Lavey says " report that the iPhone is not only the leading smartphone in North America, but in other parts of the world as well."

Dear Megan, if you bothered to look at the site you are using as a source for this pathetic attempt at journalism, you would see this:

"The report is based on the ad requests we receive from our network of more than 15,000 mobile Web sites and iPhone and Android applications. The data contained in the report is a measure of mobile data usage and does not represent the traditional view of market share based on the number of handsets sold."

Only a seriously deluded person would believe that iPhone has 51%(!) market share worldwide. If I recall correctly, Apple has somewhere around 10% worldwide market share, maybe slightly more. Don't get me wrong, it is certainly quite impressive raise with only one model of mobile device, but claiming that iPhone dominates the market? Really?

This data shows that it dominates ad market - ads built in the iPhone applications :)

I'm a little surprised that Android made it onto the Oceania chart at all.
WebOS devices haven't been released here (all networks use use GSM), The HTC Hero was only released here in September.
Symbian had been pretty entrenched until Nokia owners started using their friends iPhones.
I'm surprised WiMo wasn't higher. A lot of "iPhone Killer" handsets based on WiMo were released following the launch of the iPhone in the US and I know quite a few people with them. I know even more who returned them due to poor hardware design.
Blackberry's were De Rigour in Corporate circles before the iPhone so either they've all switched to iPhone or don't use the Web.

It's more interesting to note that Symbian is far more established in Western Europe than anywhere else! Symbian and Nokia are European products after all.

And Nokia dominates both in Europe and the world in terms of sales, the US market is after all a little bit "strange" compared with the rest of the world.

So if the iPhone really does have 78% of what you call "Western Europe" (bah, hardly accurate) something big has happened.

I don't think they could ever steal the ground from Asia yet. Certain places there aren't keen on the whole capacitive screen thing; their language style is consistent with Character calligraphy: Kanji, katakana, hiragana and such. Writing those without a stylus is pretty hard.

However that's just input. As far as ease-of-use and precision is concerned, I'm sure that capacitive screened-phones, iPhone included, will catch the eye of those in Asia soon.

Crazy how the #1 smartphone Blackberry only has 6%. That says a lot about their internet usability.