Dec 07
From iLounge:
iPhone browser share overtakes Windows Mobile
According to the latest browser marketshare report from Net Applications, the iPhone and iPod touch have attained a .1 percent share of browser usage, besting Microsoft’s Windows CE platform, which has a .06 percent share of the market. Microsoft has been selling Windows CE devices since 1996, and according to Gartner shipped more than three million of the devices in Q1 2007.
This means that despite there being millions and millions more Windows Mobile devices (and Internet Explorer for mobile devices being introduced in November 1996), people just aren’t using them for the web???? Having used a Windows CE 2 device back in the day, I could see why.
According to Computerworld, if the iPhone maintains this rate of growth, it could be the third largest computing platform “by the end of next year.”
Whoah!
2 Responses to “iPhone better browser than Windows Mobile”
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December 7th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Having worked with the Windows Mobile 5 and 6 development teams blah blah blah.. Windows Mobile Explorer sucks, iPhone’s Mobile Safari rocks. I think that has a LOT to do with it.
December 7th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
No surprise there. Having used many WM devices I rarely used the browser - it was and is hopeless. Safari on the iPhone is superb.