Techcrunch reports that even though mobile Safari has a tiny fraction of the browser market it has already exceeded Windows mobile in actual usage:
” According to figures from Net Applications, the iPhone now holds a 0.09% browser market share; a small figure perhaps but remarkable when compared to the market share of Windows CE on 0.06%; this despite at least 20 million Windows Mobile devices having been sold. Simply put, iPhone users are using their iPhone to surf the web far more often than users of Windows powered mobile phones. Symbian phone users (S60) rank at a lowly 0.01%, despite Nokia having sold hundreds of millions of phones worldwide.”
With only 1.4 million iPhones sold so far, they’ve taken browser market share from a competitor with nearly 20x users. For .mobi this is a death knell because Safari browsers don’t surf .mobi sites, they surf the entire web.
Dot mobi is looking like one of those interim technologies that we will look back upon as an oddity at best.
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“For .mobi this is a death knell because Safari browsers don’t surf .mobi sites, they surf the entire web.”
The entire web, which includes .mobi sites.