Quantcast: Android Accounts for Quarter of US Mobile Web Traffic
Quantcast: Android Accounts for Quarter of US Mobile Web Traffic
Posted 09/03/2010 at 2:50pm
| by Pulkit Chandna
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Apple and Google have begun sparring over who has the fastest growing mobile OS, with both gloating on the sheer number of devices they are activating each day. However, it is often difficult to extricate the truth from such unabashed preening. Maybe Quantcast's latest monthly mobile data usage report could offer a more balanced perspective.
According to Quantcast, Android emerged as a more popular web browsing platform at the end of August, gaining another 2% share of mobile Web usage in the US. It managed an identical leap in July as well. Android devices now account for a quarter of all mobile data consumption in the country.
Apple's iOS, while still the leading devourer of mobile data bandwidth, is slowly but steadily conceding ground to Android. After dropping 2% over the past two months, it now accounts for 56% of all mobile data usage in the US.
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Bullwinkle J Moose
September 04, 2010 at 3:29am
What if NVidia were to DUMP the Internet Crap and just give ME a hardware solution to compress the HD graphics at my rack computers and see my Desktops from a device like this???
I want to control several Rack Computers from this device using the handheld as a mouse, a keyboard and A MONITOR, and show all my desktops that are connected by KVM switch from my handheld using one wireless, compressed video stream and one wireless USB channel to control your (I mean MY) desktop from...
I want the processing power of my rack computers in the palm of my hand
I want it all NOW!
I don't wanna lug a monitor around with my rack
or a regular keyboard & mouse
I'd be getting the Internet on the handheld from my Home computer and bypass all the connection fee's because it would only be wireless video & wireless USB only!!
The desktop or rack computers could provide any Internet access if needed and NVidia could handle any heavy graphics chores at the rack and just sent a compressed video streem to the handheld
The wireless USB channel could also be used to transfer data from a thumbdrive plugged into the handheld to the desktop or rack computers!
fuzz_64
September 03, 2010 at 6:37pm
All 3 major companies in Canada carry the iPhone and some of the smaller ones can support it but don't have a deal to carry it..
Even still, Android is VERY quickly catching up and will very likely surpase and destroy iPhone usage.. The fact that Android is available on budget phones, mid-range phones and high-end phones whereas iOS is only on high-end phones means there is an absolutely huge market for Android to capture from other OS's such as Symbian and iOS cannot compete.
doomtuba
September 03, 2010 at 3:35pm
Android is catching up, but what will happen once Apple goes multi-carrier?
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