BlackBerry overtakes iOS as top mobile web-browsing OS, barely
It turns out that Research in Motion might have been up to a little more than suing their competitors lately. According to a study by U.S. web researcher StatCounter, for the first time, BlackBerry has overtaken Apple’s iOS as the top mobile OS for web use — although not by much.
The research firm found that US BlackBerry OS edged out Apple’s iOS in November, taking 34.4 per cent of market share. Apple’s iOS, serving iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices, recorded 33 per cent in the same month.
The sampling of more than 15 billion page views per month on more than three million websites in StatCounter’s network recorded only U.S. figures.
“These figures suggest that developers should not be developing solely for the iPhone to the exclusion of BlackBerry and Android,” said Aodhan Cullen, the CEO of StatCounter.
Android, the mobile operating system by Google, has also been gaining traction, having tripled to 23.8 per cent of the market this year from 8.2 per cent last November in terms of web usage.
This is good news, and not just for RIM; this is a strong indication that there’s a lot of competition out there in the world of mobile, which can only be good for the consumer. I gotta say, I was surprised by the findings, because I thought BlackBerry was pretty much on the way out, compared to the up-and-coming iOS and Android.
