Originally Posted by AppleInsider

Apple's iOS, which powers the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, cracked 2 percent of all Web browsing in January, with a share north of 5 percent in both the U.K. and Australia to start 2011.

Net Applications on Tuesday published the results of its latest worldwide browser market share findings. The numbers show that in the month of January, Apple's iOS mobile operating system and the Mobile Safari browser cracked the 2 percent barrier for the first time.

iOS, which runs on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, represented 2.06 percent of all global browsing in January. The analytics firm noted that growth of iOS market share accelerated over the holidays, a typical pattern for Apple as the company's products are given as gifts.

Apple has the greatest market share presence in Singapore, where iOS devices represented 9.98 percent of all Web browsing traffic. Also noteworthy was australia, where 5.6 percent of browser traffic came from iOS devices.

The U.K. also had a strong showing, with 5.1 percent of total Web traffic originating from iOS users. In the U.S., 3.4 percent of all browser traffic is represented by Apple's mobile operating system.



Last month, Apple revealed that it has sold more than 160 million iOS devices since the iPhone first launched in 2007. Growth of the iOS platform accelerated considerably in 2010 with the debut of the iPad and the launch of the iPhone 4.

In fact, just days after the iPad launched, the Web browsing presence of the device already rivaled both the Google Android and Research in Motion BlackBerry platforms. The iPad quickly surpassed Android in browser share by July of 2010.

Originally Posted by LeCorsaire

Since iPad is designed to be used for browsing.

Originally Posted by jd_in_sb

What share of web browsing does Android have?

Originally Posted by alkrantz

I am a web developer for a living and there is no way I would target something with a 2% market share specifically unless that 2% happened to correlate to the particular projects demographic. I think the numbers for mobile browsing in general, including Android and Blackberry are way more influential in web dev than this is.

Originally Posted by alkrantz

I surprised the title of this wasn't LESS than 2% instead of More than 2%. I know for me personally that number is disappointing. I am a web developer for a living and there is no way I would target something with a 2% market share specifically unless that 2% happened to correlate to the particular projects demographic. I think the numbers for mobile browsing in general, including Android and Blackberry are way more influential in web dev than this is.

Having said that there are 2 iPads and 2 iPhones in my house and I know we do the majority of our web browsing on them, and because they support most standards the experience is pretty good.

Originally Posted by alkrantz

I surprised the title of this wasn't LESS than 2% instead of More than 2%. I know for me personally that number is disappointing. I am a web developer for a living and there is no way I would target something with a 2% market share specifically unless that 2% happened to correlate to the particular projects demographic. I think the numbers for mobile browsing in general, including Android and Blackberry are way more influential in web dev than this is.

Having said that there are 2 iPads and 2 iPhones in my house and I know we do the majority of our web browsing on them, and because they support most standards the experience is pretty good.