Android is gaining in popularity as a means of accessing the mobile web - and doing so at the expense of RIM's BlackBerry and Windows Mobile, according to AdMob's June data.
Though the iPhone is far ahead in the smartphone stakes when it comes to mobile web requests (unsurprising, given the unlimited data contracts that its users get in the US and UK; and other countries?), Google's platform is making a good fist of it.
The Androidandme website points to the numbers suggesting that Android is making 7% of web requests (that's not the same as market share in terms of handsets sold, let's emphasise) in the UK, "more than the BlackBerry and Windows Mobile combined".
With 25% month-on-month growth, the share of web requests grew past Windows Mobile and now stands, worldwide, at 5% - though that's behind RIM and far behind Symbian, with 34%. And that of course is well behind the iPhone, which despite its comparatively small number of sales (compared to Symbian, that is) has a 47% share.
Not that the iPhone is the love of everyone: the New York Times reports that its ability to slurp up data and thus stretch AT&T's network to the limits is causing annoyance in the US.
Possibly the same thing is the reason for the repeated complaints about O2's data service in the UK in recent weeks...
Though as a separate data point, here's Larvalabs complaining about the amazingly low sell-through of paid-for apps on the Android platform. With a graph of August sales, they comment:
That's a $62.39 daily average. Very difficult to buy the summer home at this rate. It appears this isn't just our problem. To see examples from other companies just look in the market, a sales range is listed right in the summary of the app. A good example is the well known game Trism, which sold over $250,000 in it's first two months on the iPhone. On Android it has sold, to date, less than 500 copies. That's $1,046 total earnings, max.
Which may go to show that.. iPhone owners have more money?
