{"id":111182,"date":"2014-10-16T11:29:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T09:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=111182"},"modified":"2014-10-16T11:30:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T09:30:30","slug":"apple-versus-android-mobile-browser-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/111182-apple-versus-android-mobile-browser-war.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple versus Android: mobile browser war"},"content":{"rendered":"

Akamai recently released its Q4 2014 State of the Internet report, which showed that Mobile Safari is the most popular mobile browser in the world.<\/p>\n

The Akamai State of the Internet Report draws data from Akamai IO, which collects data on browser usage across PC and mobile devices connected via fixed and mobile networks.<\/p>\n

Mobile browser usage on cellular networks<\/h3>\n

The diagram\u00a0below illustrates mobile browser usage by users identified to be on cellular networks in the second quarter of 2014.<\/p>\n

The diagram focuses on the usage of Android Webkit and Apple Mobile Safari, with other browsers designated as \u201cOthers\u201d in the graph.<\/p>\n

As the graph shows, a gap of 2-3% separated Mobile Safari and Android Webkit during the first month of the quarter.<\/p>\n

The changes in early May were the result of an update to the underlying Akamai IO database which reclassified several \u201cother\u201d browsers as Android Webkit.<\/p>\n

Usage of the two browsers appeared to be extremely similar for the next couple of weeks, but by the end of the quarter the gap had widened to 4-5% in Mobile Safari\u2019s favour.<\/p>\n

Overall, Apple Mobile Safari trended to an average of 35.9% of requests, while Android Webkit trended to an average of 32.6% of requests.<\/p>\n

While usage of Android Webkit and Apple Mobile Safari on cellular networks has been fairly close in the two years that we have been publishing this data from the State of the Internet Report, this is the first quarter where Safari essentially led Webkit on cellular networks across the full 90-day observation period.<\/p>\n

\"Mobile<\/a>

Mobile browsers on cellular networks<\/p><\/div>\n

Mobile browser usage on all networks<\/h3>\n

Expanding the data set to all networks (not just those defined as cellular), Apple Mobile Safari was once again the most popular.<\/p>\n

At the start of the quarter, a gap of approximately 19% separated Apple Mobile Safari and Android Webkit.<\/p>\n

The early May reclassification helped boost the observed usage of Android Webkit, but by the end of the quarter the gap had only narrowed slightly, to around 17%.<\/p>\n

Averaged across the entire quarter, Apple Mobile Safari accounted for 48.5% of requests, while Android Webkit accounted for 31.6% of requests.<\/p>\n

\"Mobile<\/a>

Mobile browsers on all networks<\/p><\/div>\n

More on mobile browsers<\/h3>\n

Mobile browser war: Apple vs Android<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Apple vs Android vs BlackBerry vs Windows<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Akamai\u2019s latest State of the Internet report shows which mobile browser is winning the turf war<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":73042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3340,397,19438,605,21875,35,19440],"class_list":["post-111182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-akamai","tag-android","tag-android-webkit","tag-apple","tag-apple-mobile-safari","tag-headline","tag-mobile-safari"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111224,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111182\/revisions\/111224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}