damn it Apple! You better pull out a new universally-compatible HSPA/CDMA iPhone this June! Can you guys imagine the marketshare they would get if the iPhone was available on Verizon, Sprint, and T-mobile?!?! Insane I tell you...
I'm sorry to say, my friend, that will not happen anytime soon. It would mean severing the contract with AT&T. Plus, it would only really boost sales in the US as most CDMA-based countries seem to be the poorer ones, where a $600 iPhone converts to a very expensive item. Beyond that, to work for 3G on T-Mobile it would also need an additional UMTS radio. None of that seems likely, though I would welcome it as I do travel to countries that use CDMA. Always a PITA, but part of the poor cellular setup of those countries.
Blackberry is in a bad place... They need to get with the program.
No, you get with the program. This article is very misleading (again from AI).
The 51% is marketshare for browser traffic from mobile devices, not web traffic!
Does it include all the data and emails that make up the primary function of BB's, the answer is clearly no so it is a lie to say iPhone has 51% of web traffic from smartphones.
While BB's have a web browser it is not anywhere the main aim of a BB, very few people will use a BB for anything more than searching for phone numbers when it a rush and reading news and sports when stuck between meetings or at the airport. It is not a web browsing machine.
Anyone who looks at these stats and uses them as any indication whatsoever of marketshare is ridiculous. Remember everysingle business person with a blackberry gets sent a copy of each and every email sent to their email everyday. This includes company voicemails and attachments. I would wager that BB's have actually got 80% of the smartphone web traffic. Remember the vast majority of BB's are used by corporates with heavy traffic, The vast majority of iPhones are not.
No, you get with the program. This article is very misleading (again from AI).
The 51% is marketshare for browser traffic from mobile devices, not web traffic!
Does it include all the data and emails that make up the primary function of BB's, the answer is clearly no so it is a lie to say iPhone has 51% of web traffic from smartphones.
While BB's have a web browser it is not anywhere the main aim of a BB, very few people will use a BB for anything more than searching for phone numbers when it a rush and reading news and sports when stuck between meetings or at the airport. It is not a web browsing machine.
Anyone who looks at these stats and uses them as any indication whatsoever of marketshare is ridiculous. Remember everysingle business person with a blackberry gets sent a copy of each and every email sent to their email everyday. This includes company voicemails and attachments. I would wager that BB's have actually got 80% of the smartphone web traffic. Remember the vast majority of BB's are used by corporates with heavy traffic, The vast majority of iPhones are not.
While you are correct in that it does not include all data sent, the article does clearly state the specific metrics used.
"The ad company's latest Mobile Metrics report, which tracks handheld web traffic based on served banner and text ads, gives the iPhone a majority 51 percent share of smartphone requests handled in the United States"
I don't think your 80% is close to accurate. The iPhone also does email, including ActiveSync, but more importantly it can be used for streaming audio and video which would by pass Mobile Metrics altogether, which accounts for a dominate chuck of web traffic on PCs. Then we have App Store app DLs up to 10MB and iTS songs DLs which would make it even more extreme.
Not that RiM isn't probably pushing an excessive amount of email compared to the iPhone, but one is positioned as multi-media device and the other isn't. I think accounts for a lot.
No, you get with the program. This article is very misleading (again from AI).
The 51% is marketshare for browser traffic from mobile devices, not web traffic!
Does it include all the data and emails that make up the primary function of BB's, the answer is clearly no so it is a lie to say iPhone has 51% of web traffic from smartphones.
While BB's have a web browser it is not anywhere the main aim of a BB, very few people will use a BB for anything more than searching for phone numbers when it a rush and reading news and sports when stuck between meetings or at the airport. It is not a web browsing machine.
Anyone who looks at these stats and uses them as any indication whatsoever of marketshare is ridiculous. Remember everysingle business person with a blackberry gets sent a copy of each and every email sent to their email everyday. This includes company voicemails and attachments. I would wager that BB's have actually got 80% of the smartphone web traffic. Remember the vast majority of BB's are used by corporates with heavy traffic, The vast majority of iPhones are not.
By web, do you mean internet in general, or http(s)? It sounds like you take the broader view. A typical web page can be a a couple hundred kilobytes of traffic, a lot of emails are a few kilobytes. Attachments are a different story. Voice mails can be pretty small, I don't know how they are handled, I don't think typical phone voicemails are handled by IP.
iPhone, iPhone, iPhone, iPhone, iPhone, iPhone, iPhone, iPhone, iPhone, iPhone, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Don't you people every get bored of talking about the iPhone?
Apple was an interesting company before it snagged the stupid phones-are-toys-and-I'm-a-loser crowd. Please, Apple, give the phone crowd back to Motorola or whatever other generic crappy phone company. These people are giving longtime Apple users a bad rep.
Any you came to the "iPhone subforum" to say this why?
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damn it Apple! You better pull out a new universally-compatible HSPA/CDMA iPhone this June! Can you guys imagine the marketshare they would get if the iPhone was available on Verizon, Sprint, and T-mobile?!?! Insane I tell you...
I'm sorry to say, my friend, that will not happen anytime soon. It would mean severing the contract with AT&T. Plus, it would only really boost sales in the US as most CDMA-based countries seem to be the poorer ones, where a $600 iPhone converts to a very expensive item. Beyond that, to work for 3G on T-Mobile it would also need an additional UMTS radio. None of that seems likely, though I would welcome it as I do travel to countries that use CDMA. Always a PITA, but part of the poor cellular setup of those countries.
Blackberry is in a bad place... They need to get with the program.
No, you get with the program. This article is very misleading (again from AI).
The 51% is marketshare for browser traffic from mobile devices, not web traffic!
Does it include all the data and emails that make up the primary function of BB's, the answer is clearly no so it is a lie to say iPhone has 51% of web traffic from smartphones.
While BB's have a web browser it is not anywhere the main aim of a BB, very few people will use a BB for anything more than searching for phone numbers when it a rush and reading news and sports when stuck between meetings or at the airport. It is not a web browsing machine.
Anyone who looks at these stats and uses them as any indication whatsoever of marketshare is ridiculous. Remember everysingle business person with a blackberry gets sent a copy of each and every email sent to their email everyday. This includes company voicemails and attachments. I would wager that BB's have actually got 80% of the smartphone web traffic. Remember the vast majority of BB's are used by corporates with heavy traffic, The vast majority of iPhones are not.
No, you get with the program. This article is very misleading (again from AI).
The 51% is marketshare for browser traffic from mobile devices, not web traffic!
Does it include all the data and emails that make up the primary function of BB's, the answer is clearly no so it is a lie to say iPhone has 51% of web traffic from smartphones.
While BB's have a web browser it is not anywhere the main aim of a BB, very few people will use a BB for anything more than searching for phone numbers when it a rush and reading news and sports when stuck between meetings or at the airport. It is not a web browsing machine.
Anyone who looks at these stats and uses them as any indication whatsoever of marketshare is ridiculous. Remember everysingle business person with a blackberry gets sent a copy of each and every email sent to their email everyday. This includes company voicemails and attachments. I would wager that BB's have actually got 80% of the smartphone web traffic. Remember the vast majority of BB's are used by corporates with heavy traffic, The vast majority of iPhones are not.
While you are correct in that it does not include all data sent, the article does clearly state the specific metrics used.I don't think your 80% is close to accurate. The iPhone also does email, including ActiveSync, but more importantly it can be used for streaming audio and video which would by pass Mobile Metrics altogether, which accounts for a dominate chuck of web traffic on PCs. Then we have App Store app DLs up to 10MB and iTS songs DLs which would make it even more extreme.
Not that RiM isn't probably pushing an excessive amount of email compared to the iPhone, but one is positioned as multi-media device and the other isn't. I think accounts for a lot.
No, you get with the program. This article is very misleading (again from AI).
The 51% is marketshare for browser traffic from mobile devices, not web traffic!
Does it include all the data and emails that make up the primary function of BB's, the answer is clearly no so it is a lie to say iPhone has 51% of web traffic from smartphones.
While BB's have a web browser it is not anywhere the main aim of a BB, very few people will use a BB for anything more than searching for phone numbers when it a rush and reading news and sports when stuck between meetings or at the airport. It is not a web browsing machine.
Anyone who looks at these stats and uses them as any indication whatsoever of marketshare is ridiculous. Remember everysingle business person with a blackberry gets sent a copy of each and every email sent to their email everyday. This includes company voicemails and attachments. I would wager that BB's have actually got 80% of the smartphone web traffic. Remember the vast majority of BB's are used by corporates with heavy traffic, The vast majority of iPhones are not.
By web, do you mean internet in general, or http(s)? It sounds like you take the broader view. A typical web page can be a a couple hundred kilobytes of traffic, a lot of emails are a few kilobytes. Attachments are a different story. Voice mails can be pretty small, I don't know how they are handled, I don't think typical phone voicemails are handled by IP.
iPhone, iPhone, iPhone, iPhone, iPhone, iPhone, iPhone, iPhone, iPhone, iPhone, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Don't you people every get bored of talking about the iPhone?
Apple was an interesting company before it snagged the stupid phones-are-toys-and-I'm-a-loser crowd. Please, Apple, give the phone crowd back to Motorola or whatever other generic crappy phone company. These people are giving longtime Apple users a bad rep.
Any you came to the "iPhone subforum" to say this why?