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Mobile Safari Usage Jumps 64% Since December

Monday, March 24th, 2008 at 10:55 AM - by

Usage of Apple's Mobile Safari, the Web browser found on the iPhone and iPod touch, is on the climb with a 64 percent jump from December 2007 to March 2008 in the United States. According to data from StatCounter, Mobile Safari's U.S. market share went from 0.14 percent in December to 0.23 percent in March.

Global usage for Mobile Safari was up, too, more than doubling from 0.03 percent of the market up to 0.08 percent during the same period.

The figures indicate that the browser is now the top mobile browser in the U.S., and the number two mobile browser world wide. The top mobile browser is currently Nokia's with 0.25 percent of the global market.

StatCounter CEO Aodhan Cullen commented "The key message is that iPhone is more than living up to its claims of being a user friendly Internet browser, unlike many other cell phones."

Mobile Safari's market growth is good news for Apple and iPhone users, but the numbers are still small compared to the desktop browser market. In February, for example, Safari held 5.7 percent of the market, while Firefox grabbed 17.27 percent, and Microsoft's Internet Explorer took 74.88 percent.

[Thanks to PCWorld for the heads up.]

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Mon Mar 24, 2008 2:01 pm

Why do they lump mobile web numbers into non-mobile? It seems silly, because the numbers are going to look terribly small, and thus people will ignore them until it's too late. By then, when the numbers appear significant compared to total web usage, Apple's iPhone will have dominated like iTunes, and noone will be able to catch up.

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Mon Mar 24, 2008 5:08 pm

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Why do they lump mobile web numbers into non-mobile? It seems silly, because the numbers are going to look terribly small, and thus people will ignore them until it's too late. By then, when the numbers appear significant compared to total web usage, Apple's iPhone will have dominated like iTunes, and noone will be able to catch up.

I agree. It would be like comparing the number of phone calls made by cell phones vs land lines in 1998. If one had done that, one would think that cell phones would never catch on.

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