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Apple by the Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC] Keeping up with Apple's growth is like sneezing with your eyes open — it's nearly impossible. That's why every so often we like to bring you an update of the latest Apple news, numbers and trends. The infographic below was designed by Sortable. It shares the latest Apple profits, revenues and cash-in-hand, along with the company's reach — 30% of smartphone users in the U.S. have an iPhone. SEE ALSO: The iPhone 5 Might Look Like This [PICS] Along with an impressive iPad market share (62%) and an astounding number of employees (over 30,000), don't forget one of Apple's most valuable properties — the App Store. You'll currently find 600,000 apps and counting in the store, and 895 new apps are added every day. Are you one among the millions of Apple customers? Thumbnail courtesy of Tibneo, DeviantArt. The mobile web is dead. Today, comScore released startling data about the mobile web, which bodes poorly for the browser.
In March, the web browser accounted for just 18.5 percent of time spent online among US smartphone users. Mobile apps accounted for the rest. Now we know why Safari for iOS capabilities advance so sparingly: Apple sees it as irrelevant. Stated differently: Safari is to mobile what Internet Explorer 6 was to the desktop 10 years ago.
Apps matter more to both developers. Qualifying that one country does not the whole world make, the US data nevertheless foreshadows future trends and illuminates the past, demonstrating the wisdom of Apple's 2008 turnabout. Apple and Microsoft singing in a Tree Apple and Microsoft command the dominate web browsers in their respective platform markets. Apple's situation is somewhat different, but it's reasons for Safari's sorry state aren't far removed from Microsoft protecting its core platform. iOS Apps gape Safari The strategy is overwhelmingly successful. Inspire Magazine: February 2012 - How to decide: Mobile websites vs. mobile apps.
New Zealand Smartphone Penetration – the facts « GetSMART. UPDATE January 2013 New stats on mobile internet use and market share facts on New Zealand and Australia smartphone use have been posted in a new article on this blog, click to read the newest information here. UPDATE 22 August 2012 More grist for the mill. Some hard cold facts spotted on Twitter this morning for the split between iPhone and Android market share in New Zealand. RealEstate.co.nz as at today App downloads: iPhone 85,500 and Android 20,300 TradeMe.co.nz as at today App downloads: 450K iPhone, 120K Android; and they also announced they are seeing 1000 mobile initiated listings/day.
Note I found it easy to find the link to app on RealEstate but couldn’t find it at all on TradeMe’s site. UPDATE 16 May 2012: We’ve found some great stats for Australian Smartphone penetration, and Google have just released a new report on New Zealand Smartphone penetration so we thought it time for another update to the last two posts (keep reading for those). True that! UPDATE 27 January 2012: Smartphones: Neilsen, Kantar Track U.S., U.K. Proliferation.
Buy Now. There's An App For That App. A firm called SOASTA, which dubs itself the "leader in cloud-based performance and functional testing" has some news today about a release of its CloudTest Platform--something that "for the first time" allows "functional test automation for continuous multi-touch, gesture-based mobile applications. " Multitouch, gestures, apps, and the cloud all in one thing--it's a tech writer's heaven. Within the news, though, are a couple of important trends, connected to the development of smartphone and tablet technology. SOASTA's tech is based on something it's called TouchTest, and the idea is to very precisely "capture and playback" all of the "continuous touch gestures including pan, pinch, zoom, and scroll" that you may get up to if you're an owner of an iDevice or an Android phone or tablet.
Alongside this it's got a Private Device Cloud system that lets you use the devices you already own to test "end user experiences from real devices around the world. " [Image: Flickr user bergie] Parse. [New Report] Mobile Platforms: The Clash of Ecosystems. [We at VisionMobile have been researching and helping to educate the industry about mobile platforms for the last five years. In this time mobile software has evolved from the world of “open OS” to the world of complex ecosystems, network effects, app stores which are redefining the rules of telecom industry.
Today we share much of this knowledge in our Mobile Platforms: The Clash of Ecosystems report - a critical analysis of major mobile platforms and their battle for dominance - free download here]. Mobile platforms are at the center of the epic battle between Internet and telecom giants. The competition is not just about technology, performance, user interface or openness. Smartphones go mainstream, but the devil’s in the details. The leaders, iOS and Android, are driven by economics of demand. Successful platforms are a magnet for financial investment. App stores are about controlling ecosystems, not profiting from content. The rising star of HTML5. Patent wars. . - Michael V. Global mobile statistics 2011: all quality mobile marketing research, mobile Web stats, subscribers, ad revenue, usage, trends…
The mobiThinking compendium of mobile statistics and research The stats, all the stats and nothing but the stats… In the past three years, we have gone from a smattering of mobile statistics to an abundance of useful information. But there's still a long way to go, there are still huge gaps in our knowledge, some countries enjoy a proliferation of data sources, while others have little or none; and the quality of statistics varies incredibly. As telecoms regulators and industry associations start to collect and share meaningful data, things will only get better.
An unfortunate side effect of the media’s recent surge of enthusiasm for mobile in the past year is a tendency to highlight data of dubious quality (often when better is available), and/or widespread misunderstanding, misreporting and failure to qualify figures they have cherry-picked. This isn't just misleading and confusing, it's damaging. Finding your way around the mobile stats compendium: Section B: Mobile Web; 3G Don’t miss:
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