One of the ways that the popularity of online devices is measured is by looking at browser usage and the percent of the ad market that they hold. The iPhone is now sitting on 40% of the mobile ad market according to AdMob.
The iPhone has grabbed 40% of the market in only two years while market share for devices from Nokia and RIM are losing ground. The caveat to these numbers is of course that the figures come from the ads that AdMob itself serves and not the whole market.
Still the numbers are very telling. The iPhone isn’t the only platform growing its market share. Android has grown to 7% of the market and webOS grew from naught to 4%.
Nice. But untrue. As an iphone user i’m bit angry how bad knowledge all these bloggers have, you give us bad name. This pr bull which even a little googling would have cleared. Come bit more digging. Start here
http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/iPhones-global-success-is-more-marketing-myth-than-reality/1254361557
During this month’s new iPod launch event, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said the company had sold 30 million iPhones — a number that is sure to increase when third calendar quarter shipments are officially announced in a few weeks. Thirty million is a remarkable number in just two years, but from another perspective it’s paltry. In just the second quarter, Nokia sold three-and-a-half times more handsets as Apple did in more than two years, according to Gartner and IDC.
Please pay attention: “Ad Market” – this is not the phone market, but the number of advertisments pushed to a phone. If you use free apps on the iPhone, you’ve seen the banner ads. And there are tonnes of them. I am guessing that because of the explosion of apps for the platform, yes, indeed, this headline is true.
So true that I’ve noticed that the wait for Admob servers is actually slowing down many free apps because those servers are undoubted under stress. This is a very interesting stat.