{"id":77702,"date":"2013-05-16T14:02:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T12:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=77702"},"modified":"2013-05-17T08:37:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T06:37:34","slug":"mobile-browser-war-apple-vs-android-vs-microsoft-vs-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/77702-mobile-browser-war-apple-vs-android-vs-microsoft-vs-opera.html","title":{"rendered":"Mobile browser war: Apple vs Android vs Microsoft vs Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"

Akamai<\/a> released its Q4 2012 State of the Internet Report in April 2013, showing that Android Webkit and Mobile Safari are the most popular mobile browsers.<\/p>\n

Akamai\u2019s State of the Internet Report gathers data from the Akamai Intelligent Platform, and provides insight into key global statistics including connection speeds, attack traffic, and network connectivity and availability.<\/p>\n

The report used data from across several hundred top-tier sites delivering content through Akamai. It should be noted that most of these sites are focused on a U.S. audience.<\/p>\n

According to the Q4 report Android Webkit was responsible for 35.3% of requests on cellular networks, while Apple Mobile Safari drove 32.6% of requests. Opera Mini usage generally remained above 20% across the quarter.<\/p>\n

\"Mobile<\/a>

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

When the scope is expanded to all network (not just those identified as \u201ccellular\u201d), the distribution is markedly different.<\/p>\n

Here Apple Mobile Safari remained responsible for the vast majority of requests, peaking above 60% each Sunday during the fourth quarter<\/p>\n

Android Webkit remains solidly in second place across most of the quarter, with average usage of 21.7%.<\/p>\n

Microsoft\u2019s Mobile Explorer usage appeared to see sharp growth during the latter half of December, though it only averaged 12.6% usage for the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n

Opera Mini and Nokia browsers rounded out the top five, though both had fairly erratic usage patterns across the quarter, accounting, on average, for 4.5% and 1.1% of usage respectively.<\/p>\n

\"Mobile<\/a>

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

More on Akamai’s State of the Internet<\/h3>\n

Apple vs Android: mobile browser wars<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Mobile browser wars in 2012<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

BlackBerry vs Samsung vs Nokia vs Apple in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Most popular OS and browsers on MyBroadband<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Android versus iPhone<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Akamai\u2019s Q4 2012 State of the Internet Report reveals which mobile browsers are ruling the Internet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":75675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[3340,19438,35,19440,653,3048],"class_list":["post-77702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-akamai","tag-android-webkit","tag-headline","tag-mobile-safari","tag-nokia","tag-opera-mini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77702"}],"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=77702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78022,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77702\/revisions\/78022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}