Daniel Eran Dilger
Apple's iOS products not only represented a large chunk of U.S. Black Friday sales, but where also used to place the vast majority of mobile purchases.
A series of regular reports by IBM's Digital Analytics Benchmark group, tracking a "digital analytics platform that tracks millions of transactions and analyzes terabytes of raw data from approximately 800 retail sites nationwide," profilied the week's shopping by mobile users.
IBM highlighted that buyers' use of mobile devices for shopping was up 9 percent over last year, and that mobile devices now account for 37 percent of all shopping traffic and 21 percent of online sales.
In general, smartphones drove twice as much traffic as tablets, but tablet users actually placed 1.5x as many sales, accounting for 13.2 percent of online purchases compared to just 7.8 percent for smartphones.
iOS leads Android in mobile shopping
However, when breaking down those numbers by mobile platform, IBM reported that iOS devices accounted for more than 4.5 times the total sales of Android or over an 80 percent share of mobile-oriented sales (above), with 17.3 percent of all online sales occurring on an Apple mobile device versus just 3.75 percent on Android products.
IBM stated that iOS users also spent an average of 18 percent more per order: $131.34 versus $111.35 for average Android sales.
Apple's iOS devices also made up 26 percent of all overall mobile traffic, compared to just 11 percent for Android. Microsoft's Windows Phone, BlackBerry and other mobile platforms didn't represent enough activity to mention.
The leading share of online shopping grabbed by iOS users parallels the 84 percent share of tablets claimed by iPad in Chitika's web analytics, the leading share taken by iOS in app developer's revenue seen per download, and the over 80 percent usage stats reported among education and enterprise users.
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Bassackwardly wrong and misleading title. iOS devices did not account for 80% of Black Friday shopping lol. They did not even account for 80% of online shopping. They accounted for 80% of the 37% of online sales.
Still very impressive, but not even close to what the headline suggests. Sounding sensational is good, but the headline should at least be accurate.
[quote name="Frood" url="/t/160971/apples-iphone-ipad-used-to-place-over-80-of-mobile-sales-on-black-friday#post_2441597"]Bassackwardly wrong and misleading title. iOS devices did not account for 80% of Black Friday shopping lol. They did not even account for 80% of online shopping. They accounted for 80% of the 37% of online sales. Still very impressive, but not even close to what the headline suggests. Sounding sensational is good, but the headline should at least be accurate. [/quote] Did they change the title since you posted? [SIZE=4]"Apple's iPhone, iPad used to place over 80% of [B]mobile sales[/B] on Black Friday"[/SIZE]
Bassackwardly wrong and misleading title. iOS devices did not account for 80% of Black Friday shopping lol. They did not even account for 80% of online shopping. They accounted for 80% of the 37% of online sales.
Still very impressive, but not even close to what the headline suggests. Sounding sensational is good, but the headline should at least be accurate.
No, the 37% is the the share of online traffic performed by mobile devices.
Apple’s share of actual sales made on mobile devices is 82%.
Let's see how the news media manages to spin this into an Android positive article. I'm sure they'll find some way into turning iOS into the losing platform. I guess they can just say these are statistics that can be ignored and that only the platform with the highest global market share matters. That's how it usually turns out, anyway.
Yeah, see, that’s exactly what the title and article says, boyo.
Maybe just go back to C|Net. You don’t seem to fit in here.