On Christmas day, Google surged with traffic from iPhones from around the world, becoming the number one mobile-device used to access Google.

Although it’s unknown why, it probably means a lot of people got an iPhone for Christmas and naturally played with it that day. A few days after Christmas, things went back to normal with Symbian phones leading the charge in Google, mobile-device traffic.

Apple iPhones, however, only make up 2% of smartphones in the world, according to the New York Times. Symbian phones make up 63%, and  Windows Mobile phones take up 11% of the smartphone market. While the article doesn’t mention whether the iPod Touch was included in Google’s numbers, both devices are identified differently by web-sites, so it’s safe to assume it wasn’t.

So what does this really mean?

We don’t have hard facts to back this up, but it only seems logical to assume that people use their iPhones to play (mainly for fun as oppsoed to work). Apple made mobile browsing not just a tolerable experience but an enjoyable one, so, when business people around the world turned their devices off to spend time with their familes, new and happy iPhone users were just discovering theirs. That’s our theory at least.

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Entry was posted on Monday, January 14th, 2008 at 2:10 pm under Internet, News, Opinion, iPhone.  Print This Post

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