iPhone browser use rises 35.7 percent Christmas week
updated 02:25 pm EST, Tue December 30, 2008
iPhone use during Xmas
Adding to recent iPod figures, new data suggests that the iPhone sold well throughout the Christmas shopping season as well. During the week of Christmas, iPhone browser share is said to have risen 35.7 percent over the week before, reaching 0.57 percent of all browser use. This figure is also more than 50 percent higher than the average iPhone share in November, which was 0.37 percent.
The surge in use is being generally attributed to people receiving iPhones for the first time, although it may also be reflective of more spare time for existing owners, and/or less time and inclination to use a computer's browser. Evidence for high sales comes mainly from a dramatic rise in activity at the App Store, and anecdotal sightings of increased ownership.
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Says who?
Who said "although it may also be reflective of more spare time for existing owners"? The unnamed writer of this article?
One would have to speculate that the same percentage of non-iPhone owners also had spare time throughout the holiday weekend and had the same opportunity to spend the same amount of time on their phone's browsers as well.
Simply saying that perhaps more iPhones were not sold but that only iPhone users had the extra time to browse the web that week is not only very poor use of one's brain but also an opinion and has no place in what is suppose to be a news article.
If this is an opinion of the writer, please state this is an editorial. If this is the opinion of an ANALyst or someone you interviewed for this story, please attribute said opinion to that person.