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Iphone users are bandwidth hogs
APPLE IPHONE USERS are bandwidth hogs who are sucking up half of the world's mobile networks' bandwidth, according to bizarre figures from Admob.
If the figures are to believed, Jobs' Mob's slice of mobile data traffic has grown to now exceed half share globally.
While most people would think that this is just a sign of the Iphone's popularity, actually the figures are more likely to just be pants.
Admob claims that half of all mobile traffic takes place on an Iphone. Symbian is second, Android is third and RIM, unbelievably, is fourth.
What these figures are saying is not that Apple is the most popular mobile operating system at all. It is just that Iphone users are chewing up more bandwidth with their gizmos.
The amount of bandwidth they are using must be huge because business users, who make up the largest slice of the mobile market, tend to use Symbian or Blackberries.
The Iphone has a significant market share only in the US and parts of Europe so this means that once the fanboys have got their hands on one of the toys they must be downloading like crazy to make up for the rest of the world.
However this is where the figures don't quite work. For a start, if you believe the figures there can be no Symbian machines in the US and 71 per cent of all mobile data traffic in the US is conducted on Iphones. That simply can't be right.
So looking at the figures, either they are complete rubbish, or carriers will be doing themselves a favour by unplugging Iphones and freeing up their networks from the smug bandwidth hogs. µ
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what a way to loose ~30% of your customers instantly
Well, since the Apple crowd tends to the most technical illiterate of all computer users, yet view themselves as technical geniuses, this comes as no big surprise...
I can imagine the hundreds of thousands (if not milions) of iPhones set to synchronize mail, RSS feeds and God knows what else twice a minute, 24 hours a day...
I can also imagine them incessantly taking photos and posting them to Flickr, filming every pointless thing that happens around them and posting it on YouTube...
How is using their devices for the intended purpose a bad thing?
Maybe people on iPhone download more because the device is better at doing stuff on the internet perhaps?
I'm using my iPhone right now tethered to my linux desktop PC via a socks proxy server installed on the jailbroken iPhone.
I guess this makes me non technical person who thinks they know what they are doing when they don't... right?
RESEARCH! Why is Nick congenitally unable to read the original reports when he re-hashes someone else's story from another new site?
Here's the link. Read it. http://metrics.admob.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/AdMob-Mobile-Metrics-Oct-09.pdf
First point. This report is about adds served from WEB sites. Nothing else. So Mr ThungurKnifur your comments are void and without merit. Likewise Nick's talk about Simbian and Blackberries.
Second point, the numbers SPECIFICALLY INCLUDE the iPod Touch (slightly less than 1/3 of the Apple traffic is from the Touch), which is available globally, again making Nicks comments invalid.
Thirdly this is about the adds served by member web sites, which don't necessarily represent the world distribution of the web or web sites.
Fourthly this can be seen as a measure of how well used the web browser is on each platform. Apple's mobile browser is actually pretty darned good, so people use it. Mobile IE, not so much.
Not can the Inq's editor PLEASE sack Nick if he continues to fail to research what the heck he's writing about.
So this means that Apple is the first company to develop a successful devise to browse internet comfortably without a computer. You dont have to ask why the iPhone users browse more. Ask why the other phones with internet capability are used less.
Wow, very mature article. It amuses me when people get so upset when everything Apple turns to gold.
So iPhone users, who pay $30.00 per month for UNLIMITED internet access, are actually USING the internet!?!?!? And this is a problem because. . . why?
My wife has a Blackberry for business and an iPhone for home. Which one do you think she uses more for accessing the internet? My pal has a Blackberry, but always comments how jealous he is at the iPhone Safari browser. Hell, I stream my entire iTunes library over the internet to my iPhone so that I have access to over 100Gb of music, I stream internet radio, watch YouTube videos, tether my laptop to my JB iPhone, etc, etc.
AT&T's whining about iPhone internet "hogs" is like an "All You Can Eat Buffet" complaining about customers actually eating all they can at the restaurant!!!
Nick is just so blinded by his love for the Vole that he cannot see that the Iphone is great for surfing and doing things online also Andorid is growing for the same reason. I have a blackberry from work and except for doing email I would not try to do anything online with it and in the US I am not sure where you would even find a Symbian device.
I'm hitting about 6GB per month on my iPhone. Sometimes I have to watch a few TED.com videos to finish off the month.
Wife's iPhone is using about 2GB a month. I try to encourage her to use more since the plan allows 6GB.
We also have a HSPA USB stick that we run about 5 to 6 GB a month through.
The Inquirer tagline is "News, reviews, facts, friction".
Well, this article certainly doesn't qualify as either new, reviews, or facts so it must be pure friction.
What a garbage article. I just deleted 'The Inquirer' from my bookmarks.