March 3, 2009 by Tap
Net Applications have released their February mobile browsing figures which show Android as having gained another 1.24% browser share. Now the title of this post may have hooked you but let's face reality here. Internet statistics like these provide, at best, indications of trends. There are just far too many variables involved to be able to provide conclusive evidence of anything, especially after just two months.
So while Android's increase is great, I'm not going to read too much into the specific numbers just yet. I'm just happy to see that Android is making a good showing. Not bad for a OS that only went live in October, on a single handset. Now I can hear Apple-lovers everywhere going "but the iPhone is also just one phone" but actually it's not. You've got the original iPhone, the 3G iPhone and, unless I'm mistaken, the iPod Touch and the rest of the business iphone units all being counted as the same browser so how much browser share does the iPhone really have?
Personally I'm not interested in the iPhone. I will however be keeping an eye on these stats and in a few months time, the inaccuracies of Internet statistics aside, there will be no denying Android's rapid growth in the market. Here's hoping that I won't have to eat my own words.