BlackBerry unusually overtakes iOS in US web share
updated 12:05 pm EST, Wed December 1, 2010
BlackBerry used more on US web than iPhone
The BlackBerry saw a rare recent victory today after StatCounter showed the platform overtaking the iPhone in web use in the US. After steadily narrowing the gap over the past year, RIM just slightly overtook Apple in traffic, accounting for 34.3 percent of American traffic where iOS slipped to 33 percent. Despite its growth image, Android as a web platform has leveled off at 23.8 percent.
Worldwide figures also show RIM on the increase, at 19.25 percent, but it still trailed iOS' 21.9 percent and was well behind Symbian's 31.9 percent. Regardless, the trends if they continued could see Android and BlackBerry devices with twice the web share of iOS sometime next year, StatCounter's chief executive Aodhan Cullen claimed.
StatCounter's figures contradict actual user polls and analyst market share results. Nielsen just today put the iPhone ahead of the BlackBerry as of October, while earlier studies gave Android the lead. The results may suggest that Blackberry users have simply been turning more to the web, especially now that devices like the Torch and Style are using BlackBerry 6 and have modern web browsers.
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bull shat
BlackBerry don't have a usable browser, and the new version are not on majority of old devices.