Windows Phone 7 outnumbered 100:1 in web traffic
updated 02:10 pm EST, Thu December 16, 2010
Windows Phone 7 well behind iPhone, Android online
Windows Phone 7 has yet to garner enough web traffic to be meaningful compared to its rivals, Chitika said today. While overall on the increase, the platform so far has never passed 0.45 percent of requests on Chitika's ad network. Android outnumbers it by a ratio of 100 to one at about 40 percent.
iOS still had the majority of Chitika's traffic at about 60 percent.
The share isn't a direct mirror of WP7's influence since it only represents those developers using Chitika for their ad-supported apps; the BlackBerry and other platforms aren't on the network. The wide gap nonetheless suggests that Microsoft, even if relatively successful with its phone launch, hasn't grown quickly enough to register as more than a small fraction of app use. "Microsoft may do well to position Windows Phone 7 as a BlackBerry nemesis rather than an iPhone/Android killer -- the corporate worker’s smartphone of 2011," Chitika said.
Most of WP7's initial growth is only expected to come in 2011, when it will reach Sprint and Verizon and more manufacturers than just Dell, HTC, LG and Samsung. [via GigaOM]
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Those 5 guys who bought Windows Phone 7 phones sure are browsing a lot.