iPhone Increases Market Share in Mobile Browser Wars According to StatCounter

- StatCounter research finds iPhone is number one mobile browser
in US and number two globally

- MS Internet Explorer faces close competition from open source
Firefox
DUBLIN, Ireland--(Business Wire)--
Apple has increased its share of the Internet browser market in
the US by 64% between December and March according to StatCounter,
which provides organisations and individuals with a free website
visitor statistics tool.(1) Globally iPhone/iTouch has more than
doubled its share of the Internet browser market from 0.03% to 0.08%.

In March iPhone and iTouch increased their share of the total
browser market in the US from 0.14% in December to 0.23% according to
StatCounter which tracks in excess of nine billion pageloads per month
over its network of two million websites. If one excludes iTouch from
the figures then iPhone's market share of Internet browsing in the US
(0.18%) is still well ahead of Nokia (0.01%). However, Nokia still
maintains a significant lead over Apple in the global market with
0.25% to 0.08%.

"The key message is that iPhone is more than living up to its
claims of being a user friendly Internet browser, unlike many other
cell phones," commented Aodhan Cullen, founder and CEO of StatCounter.
He said that iPhone web browsing peaked in the US on Christmas Day at
0.07%. "Presumably this was due to people trying out their new
Christmas present combined perhaps with not accessing their PCs that
day."

The StatCounter analysis finds that Microsoft Internet Explorer
still leads the browser market overall with 44.5% market share in the
US. But it is facing real competition from open source based Firefox
which grew to 43.9% of the US browser market. Globally Internet
Explorer is well ahead at 59% with Firefox on 33%.

The StatCounter analysis was based on a sample of 372 million page
views globally from December 07 to March 08, including 71 million US
page views.

(1) Note: Figures include iPhone and iTouch

For information on this real-time, user-friendly, and free visitor
stats tool, please visit www.statcounter.com

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