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Get ready for more smartphone web traffic
By Steve Outing on Jan 14, 2008 in Misc., Technology
From NYT today: “Google Sees Surge in iPhone Traffic.”
Apple’s iPhone, of course, is the first mobile phone that has a decent web browser. So it’s predictable that buyers would be using that function a lot. (I use a Blackberry, but the web interface — not to put too fine a line on it — sucks in comparison to the iPhone’s. I seldom use it for general web browsing or searching because it’s so clunky.)
The figures cited by the Times show that iPhone owners use the web a lot. Even with only 2% of the smartphone market, iPhone web traffic to Google outdoes the more widely adopted smartphones. I notice a friend who has an iPhone surf on it constantly, so I’m not surprised.
There’s an obvious recommendation to be made to media companies as a result of this story: Get ready for serving many more mobile customers with your content and services. The iPhone is the tip of the iceberg, and more iPhone-like smartphones are coming soon. Now’s the time to gear up.
On Feb 4, 2008, Nick said:
That would make an interesting graph to see the ups and downs of particular categories.