Android has achieved yet another significant milestone today. Web statistics company Quantcast released data that monitored U.S. mobile web usage for the month of August, on Friday. Android, attaining a 2% gain of U.S. mobile web traffic in August, climbing to 25% total market in its best one month gain since Nov. 2009, while all other platforms lost share.
In its race against Apple’s iOS based devices, the Android mobile operating system continues to chip away at mobile web market share. The new stats released by Quantcast show that the Android’s gain in August remains to be more of a trickle than a blow-out, nevertheless it is a gain for Google
Quantcast mentioned that it “does not include Apple’s iPad in mobile web consumption analysis,” in an earlier post, however it failed to precisely express whether the iPad’s numbers are omitted from the newest data set. As outlined by Net Applications, which incorporates the iPad into its numbers, iOS is actually currently the third most widely used Web browsing platform worldwide.
The increase throughout the last year has continuously been Android’s and RIM and “other” devices have basically held steady on their mobile web traffic. iOS device based Web use has suffered the most from Android’s growth.
The mobile web contest is still largely only involves Apple and Google, while RIM’s market share dropped from 10% to 9% last quarter and the combined market share of all other platforms remains around 10%.
Quantcast intends to release the August web consumption by vendor details sometime next week.
