iPhone 3GS users cause 400% spike in mobile YouTube uploads
We’re all well aware of how iPhone users dominate the use of the mobile Internet. Now, there’s a new statistic that deepens the trend, and it’s so cutting it simply bleeds.
Quoting Google promulgated YouTube user data, Washington Post reports that the uploading of mobile video increase 400 percent in a single day. What day was that? Well, June 19 of course, the day that the iPhone 3GS launched.
Accroding to the Washington Post:
If there was any question about the significance of the iPhone 3GS’s impressive video functionality, here’s your answer: YouTube reports that in the six days since the iPhone 3GS was released last week, the number of mobile uploads has increased by a whopping 400 percent. For a single phone model to have such a major impact on the site is simply phenomenal.
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The phenomenal features driving this surge are the iPhone’s breakthrough capture and editing, which make living and sharing the moment almost instantaneous. Well, AT&T network issues aside.
Canonball!
Over the previous six months of 2009, mobile video uploads increased 1700 percent, which only averages out to a paltry 283 percent month. The doubters will, of course, say that the iPhone’s one-day performance is but a flash in the pan. Nevertheless, iPhone and iPod touch users owned 59 percent web traffic before the launch and 69 percent afterward, despite for about 20 percent of smartphone unit volume sales.
Going out on a limb here, but I’m guessing the September launch of the new iPod touch will only increase Apple’s lead…
What’s your take?
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