Android Passes iPhone Web Traffic In U.S.

It would be a wee bit more accurate to say that Android phones fetched more ads on the AdMob network (which is owned by Google) than the iPhone did.

My prediction is that we will be in the same situation with iPhone vs Andriod that we are now with Mac vs Windows in 5-7 years. Andriod will be the cheaper but less polished product sold to the masses, while the iPhone will be a more upscale, more expensive product for the people with discriminating taste. Right now there is a lot of innovation going on in the mobile market, but the reality is that soon some features will become standard or even (gasp!) interoperable. At that point rapid "breadth-first" innovation will stop and we'll be looking at a competition of who has the nicer screen or longer battery life or faster processor, etc., and not at all at how apps are distributed, or multitasking is done.

P.S.: In 100 years works like "cell phone" and "app" will be SAT words : ).

AdMob is still not owned by Google for now.

No one's claiming it to be a perfect sample of all traffic on the web, but that doesn't make it worthless. And I really don't think Google is juking the stats.

Placing AdMob Metrics in Context: http://metrics.admob.com/2009/10/placing-admob-metrics-in-co...