Android Traffic to Surpass iPhone Soon in the U.S.
AdMob's most recent metrics for mobile OS traffic show that although the iPhone continues to dominate, Android is on the way up. In fact, in the US market, Android is about to surpass Apple's smartphone.
Looking at the graphs below, you'll see that Android has seen significant growth over the last year and right now, the amount of traffic AdMob is seeing from Android devices is nearly level with the iPhone. Although Android has the advantage of a surge in new devices (from the likes of Motorola, Samsung and HTC), it's definitely a change from the indomitable force that was the iPhone at the same time last year.
Outside of the U.S., it would seem the iPhone is still untouchable, accounting for 50 percent of AdMob traffic. Though Android did rise from roughly three or four percent during the same period last year to past 20 percent in 2010, there's still a bit to go before it starts really threatening the iPhone.
Ars Technica repots that AdMobs uses ad requests for ads from its network as its primary metric.
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If it's happening in the U.S. it'll happen everywhere soon. This is what you get when you lock everything down you monkeys! Awesome news.
lol gooey, cetainly been a long wait, what i cant understand is these graphs though, Iphones are like 2% market share in devices ...worldwide!. there are far more symbian s60 devices than there are apple OS, so i am confused as to where these "overly bloated" apple stats come from anyway (unless its advertisign related only? then it makes sense cause it's an apple, google niche (other firms dont shove cr*p at you like they do
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iphone and android are bandwidth pigs.... every thing you do on the causes some sort of traffic....
That and the fact that online app stores give away free apps... which require bandwidth... In some cases not only to download, but to use/play.
The other thing is OS updates..... Which Apple force upon you, and Android users cant install fast enough for the updated features.
Other phones (besides palm) dont really have many OS updates.