iPhone Carrier Wars: Verizon up to 12%
One month after its release, the Verizon iPhone already makes up between 10% and 13% of all iPhone web usage. Impressed? AT&T may need to bump up their Android user base.
iPhone Still Top Smartphone
Web usage numbers are tricky; every researcher has a different set of data, and often they disagree. For example, our network shows that the iPhone is still the top smartphone in North America.
ATT vs. Verizon – The Live iPhone Tracker
The Verizon iPhone is here, and we’re tracking in real-time how much of the device’s traffic ATT and Verizon account for.
Why The Verizon iPhone is the Ultimate Threat to Android
With the Verizon iPhone officially coming soon, we look at Apple’s arch-nemesis Google, and how the Verizon move will affect its flagship mobile product Android.
Top Two iPhone Search Engines: Both Google
After our panel at SMX East revealed Google’s dominance in the mobile search market, we decided to look into the sources of their traffic. The Google App by itself can stand as the 2nd biggest iPhone search engine. As seen in Search Engine Land and ReadWriteWeb. Good information for all those using the new Chitika Mobile Ads.
Android Users 80% More Valuable Than iPhone Users
Android keeps making gains in smartphone market share, but it’s still a small player when compared to the iPhone. However, advertisers need to pay attention to Google’s mobile OS – its users click on ads significantly more often than iPhone users. As seen on The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, PC Magazine, and Wired among others
iOS 4 Now Powering 50% of iPhone Traffic
Are iPhone users up-to-date with their operating systems? Apparently… yes. iOS 4.x, the most advanced variant of iPhone’s operating system, is already powering a full half of all iPhone traffic coming through the Chitika network. As seen in Mashable and AppleInsider
Mac Impressions Spike in April – The iPad Effect?
Impressions from Mac OS-based computers spiked in April, according to our traffic data, from just over 7% to just over 10% of all traffic. Whether this is caused by more Macs sold, or more people using their Macs, is unclear; what IS clear, however, is that after the iPad launched, we saw way more Mac-based traffic almost immediately. Featured in Macworld
iPad Users Also Use… Windows?!?
What else do iPad early adopters use at home? Mac computers? Windows machines? Even Linux boxes? We broke down the iPad traffic and see what ‘siblings’ these tablets have. As seen in Fortune Brainstorm Tech and Ars Technica.
Bing on iPhone – Microsoft’s Ultimate Mobile Coup?
If Apple does indeed make a deal with Microsoft that makes Bing the iPhone’s default search engine, exactly how hard would Google be hit? According to our numbers, Google would immediately lose some 27% of the smartphone market. Featured in MacWorld, ReadWriteWeb, ChannelWeb, and others.