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.
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61% of iPads Already Running iOS 4 – January iOS and Android OS Breakdown
Ringing in the new year, we look at Android and iOS to see what OS versions people are running. Fragmentation is about even, and the iPad has picked up iOS 4 quickly.
Android to Pass iPhone’s Market Share in 2012
Android has been narrowing the gap between its family of phones and the iPhone’s market share all year. Based on our network’s data, Google’s OS will finally pass Apple’s landmark device on February 16, 2012, a little past noon Eastern.
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
Android and iPhone Users Not Co-Existing
We look at unique households (IP addresses) with an iPhone or an Android phone and at least one other Internet-browsing device, to see how much crossover there is between iPhone and Android households. The answer? Not much.
June Mobile Market: Android Gains, iPhone 4 Release Has No Effect
As of June, 2010, it looks like Android overtaking iPhone is an eventual inevitability. The much-hyped annual iPhone release had little immediate effect on the mobile marketplace, while the Evo grabbed a couple of percentage points for Google. As seen in Mashable
Search Study: iPhone Users Want New, Palm Users Want Out
What’s on the minds of mobile users? What sets someone with a BlackBerry apart from, say, an Android user?
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