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Chitika: iPhone 5 Passes Samsung Galaxy S III in Web Usage
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Ugh, so apparently the iphone5 and the galaxy s3 are the only phones that generate web traffic. How interesting Mr. Graph, how interesting.
Am I the only one bothered by that? Take 100% of the smartphone traffic, cut out all the other hundreds of devices out there except two, close the giant gap by scaling their actual numbers, and then calling that an accurate apples to apples measure. I know statistics are pulled from odd nether regions of the human anatomy, but this one came from deep. WAY DEEP in the nethers.
Am I the only one bothered by that? Take 100% of the smartphone traffic, cut out all the other hundreds of devices out there except two, close the giant gap by scaling their actual numbers, and then calling that an accurate apples to apples measure. I know statistics are pulled from odd nether regions of the human anatomy, but this one came from deep. WAY DEEP in the nethers.
If this some how makes you feel more secure about your choice in smartphone than this matters. Otherwise it clearly does not. 
P.S. To the people that say it doesn't matter how long a phone has been out. Clearly you tend to use your device more often when it is brand new.
P.S. To the people that say it doesn't matter how long a phone has been out. Clearly you tend to use your device more often when it is brand new.
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"I must say, I find you responses unnecessarily confrontational. Do you need to be so aggressive?"
Sound familiar?
I tease... because I know you can take it.
The guy was being a douch. My response was a bit confrontational but it wasn't unecessary.
I just find the whole forum thing where people click on the link, write and post a comment only to slag off the article and tell us all how uninteresting and unimportant it is tiresome. If it's not interesting to you... here's a crazy idea... don't read it! Then you'll save yourself the bother of reading it and us the bother of reading your valueless posts! I mean, come on!
That **** gets on my last nerve. Really it does.
cool bro, if you really make $9500 only working 12 hours then why the fûck are you macrumors? GTFO
Unfortunately those on the iPhone 5 are having to recharge their battery more than galaxy s3 users
http://blogs.which.co.uk/technology...ttery-life-which-browses-the-web-the-longest/
http://blogs.which.co.uk/technology...ttery-life-which-browses-the-web-the-longest/
For you people that defends the new Maps app... You seem to live in a well-updated area. Here's a comparison between Apple Maps vs Google Maps in the same area in Osaka, Japan.
It's hard for me living in Japan to like Apple Maps after being used of how much information I get out of Google Maps in comparison. For example, knowing how subway stations looks like and where all its numbered exits etc are, that's very useful here. Also, bigger famous stores/restaurants also has their own icons in Google Maps making them very easy to find.
It's hard for me living in Japan to like Apple Maps after being used of how much information I get out of Google Maps in comparison. For example, knowing how subway stations looks like and where all its numbered exits etc are, that's very useful here. Also, bigger famous stores/restaurants also has their own icons in Google Maps making them very easy to find.
That may be a contradiction, but only an apparent contradiction. Android definitely attracts those super-geeks at one end and a lot of people at the other end of the spectrum due to various models available at various price points. iOS seems to grab the middle.
But it is a bit skewed. The super geek side may be 5 to 10% and the other end may be the 40%. iOS then gets the 'middle' from 10-60%, a portion of that.
Of course these are all broad generalizations.
Calling iOS folks technically savvy is a sign of the times. On the desktop/laptop, long gone are the days that only tech savvy people used the internet. Now, internet users are just users, they are not tech savvy users. Somehow, on the phone, internet usage seems to be more tech-savvy oriented.
That is a paradox that baffles me a bit. The phones are supposed to be the easiest thing to use and why should one be tech-savvy to use a browser on a phone? Is it just the form factor that scares away/make it inconveninet for novice users? Is it still not good enough or easy enough? ( possibly ). Or non tech savvy people just do not believe they can do a lot of things on an innocuous looking phone and they do not yet perceive it to be a computer? May be it is all of the above.
more iPhones are sold than any Android phone already. Guess it's time for your "interesting discussion".
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Why would you assert that?
It may be true of particular apps, but not the DEVICE. The device is a tool. It's usage reflects the user's habits and needs, which may increase, decrease, or remain constant over time. In fact, I would argue that as more apps are developed and more content providers create mobile solutions, users will use their devices MORE, not LESS.
You make up your own facts I see.
(CNN) – The mobile space has quickly become a two-horse race between Google and Apple — and one of those giants significantly widened its lead last quarter.
Google’s Android surged to a whopping 68% share of the global smartphone market last quarter. That’s four times more than the 17% market share held by Apple, according to a Wednesday report from research firm IDC (International Data Corporation).
http://wtvr.com/2012/08/09/android-vs-iphone-android-sales-skyrocket/
You want to know why people who have any brain look at Apple users as odd and misinformed? You are the kind of Apple user that embarrasses us others. Please check your "facts" before you post them.
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Depends your meaning if fine. Where I live it is just a green blur. I have no alternative but use Google maps via the web
I suspect the web traffic issue is down to folks using web google maps to compare with the Apple maps
He said that more iPhones are sold than any single Android phone. That's true. Apple doesn't license iOS to anybody and everybody for "free" like Google does with Android.
I never seen 1000s of people queuing in shops to play with an SIII but most Apple shops I see the phones are in constant use during the opening hours. Especially after the release where people still wait for their delivery.
What has that to do with the fact, that no Android phone sold more then the iPhone? If you quote "facts" (they are estimations or a guess) then why not post the Android phone that is more succsessfull then the iPhone?
Also, much more interesting then the marketshare is the installed and used base.
You need to be comparing android vs ios. Apple only releases 1 phone a year so of course there is no single android phone that sells more. It's common sense.
Those numbers are even more impressive. Android as a system sells more phones as Apple iPhones, but iOS sells also on iPod and iPad. In turn, Android sells on hundreds of phone models and over all,sells more devices. That is not translating into traffic:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57464763-37/apples-ios-grabs-65-of-mobile-web-traffic/
It seems, Android users are not really using there devices. No fun? No battery? No money for data? Who knows, but it looks like iOS is way ahaed.
Anothe fact seems also interesting:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2012/jun/10/apple-developer-wwdc-schmidt-android
Something I can confirm for my company. We quit the play store, it was simply not worth it. Our clients refuse to sink money into that bottom less hole.