Manoj Jasra
Quantcast has just released their 2009 Mobile Web Trends Report. The report highlights overall growth trends, market share of web consumption across device manufacturers, operating systems and browsers, and provides a review of the top gifted devices of the 2009 holiday season based on post-holiday web-consumption increases. In addition, the report sheds light on anticipated 2010 developments in the mobile arena
Highlights
- North American mobile web share up 110% in 2009 (Dec ’09 vs. Dec ’08)
- Global mobile web consumption share up 148% in 2009
- Apple continues to dominate, though market share has declined as increased competition emerges
- Android supports over 12% of North American mobile web pageviews, overtaking RIM’s Blackberry
- Motorola’s Android based Droid is the most impressive market entry since the iPhone and is largely responsible for a 10x improvement in Motorola’s North American mobile web share
- Apple, Nintendo, Motorola and HTC saw the largest ‘stocking stuffer’ bounce this past holiday season, and
- Pre-launch web visibility points to a wide variety of new devices from Motorola, HTC, Blackberry and others in 2010