iPhone curb-stomps smartphone opposition in February
by Stevie Smith - Mar 2 2009, 16:00
iPhone OS storms its rivals during February. Image: booleansplit/Flickr.
Any lingering doubt as to the spreading popularity and industry presence of Apple’s iconic iPhone handset looks as though it can be put to the sword following new figures released by the number-crunching team at Net Applications.
According to the company’s February coverage report looking into mobile operating system market shares, Apple’s iPhone OS is presently wiping the floor with its smartphone competitors thanks to drawing in some 66.61 percent of all mobile traffic for the month.
In terms of overriding effect, Apple’s traffic performance ranks as almost ten times that of the Windows Mobile platform, which sees Microsoft’s operating system pulling in only 6.91 percent of the available traffic.
Similarly, the monthly figures place Google Android and the Symbian OS on a disappointing 6.15 percent each; although it is perhaps worth noting that Android’s rise remains fairly significant given it did not exist until the tail end of 2008.
Falling yet further off the pace, the PalmOS took 2.37 percent of the market while Ontario-based BlackBerry maker Research In Motion was left trailing well adrift thanks to a mere 2.24 percent of February’s traffic.
Net Applications’ research and results were conducted by gauging the spread of mobile phone traffic across tens of thousands of different online destinations.
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