I know this phenomenon has been noted elsewhere, but I still find it remarkable and puzzling:
According to the latest stats I can find on U.S. smartphone ownership, 38% have iPhones, 52% have Android devices and 10% have other types. In tablets, iPad has 54%, Android devices 43% and 3% are other. Presuming that there are many more smartphones than tablets, it's obvious that Android has a greater share of the mobile OS market than Apple (profits, of course, are an entirely different matter). Yet when I look at the Google Analytic statistics for Louisville.com, I see that in the month of March we had 34,858 visits from iOS users, 12,638 from Android users and 741 visits from other mobile OS's. In percentages, that's 72% iOS, 26% Android and 2% other. So why, if there are more internet-capable Android devices than iOS devices, do iOS users outnumber Android visitors on our site by almost 3 to 1? Is it that iOS devices give users a better Internet experience or is that iOS users are more Internet-centric and savvy or …. what? Any ideas? And, by the way, let me note that for the first time since I've been tracking Louisville.com statistics — going back to the late '90s — there were more non-Windows-OS visitors to the site than Windows in a one-month period (March), with a 51% to 49% margin for non-Windows devices. To compare over time, in 2007 94% of our visitors used Windows OS. What a remarkable turnaround in just five or so years. Macintosh OS (11%) and iOS (26%) represented 37% of our March visitors, compared to Windows' 49%. Unless Microsoft can make some significant inroads into Windows smartphones and tablets in the next few years, it looks like Apple's combined OS's will overtake Microsoft's in internet-access usage within a couple of years. _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
