Is the iPhone igniting the mobile Web?

Is the Apple iPhone finally igniting the mobile usage of the Internet? According to a study by Hitslink, the market share of the iPhone OS in the overall Web usage is of 0.09%:

As my friend Andreas Göldi (from whom I got this info) points out, this may look like a very very small number, but it's higher than all the devices running Windows Mobile (smartphones, PDAs etc), which all together total 0.06%, and the Symbian/Series60 (0.01%), despite the fact that these devices have been around much longer and are way more common than the iPhone by orders of magnitude. And of course the explanation is simple: the iPhone has a fabulous browser and a great interface.

Comments

[Laurent Haug]

It would be interesting to see with how many devices the iphone reaches 0.9% (it has only been sold for a few months) vs the count for Windows mobile phones. The "success rate" of the iphone when it comes to "convert" users into mobile surfers is probably the highest.

But now that we can get cheap GPRS modems for our laptops, aren't they mobile devices in the making, simply undetectable in these browser stats?

[Jason Rhode]

Beyond simply the iPhone, the iPod touch may end up having as much if not more of an impact on mobile communications as young people may end up being much more likely to end up with an iPod rater than iPhone.

[xotspot]

I agree with Bruno, this is the beginning of a new era. I can't help wondering what might Android bring to the end users.
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