On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Binand Sethumadhavan binand@gmail.comwrote:
I don't doubt that. My interest is in the actual numbers, which neither of the URLs you pasted mention. Opera in their annual report mentions that theirs is the most popular mobile browser in use globally.
They indeed made that statement, but it is not true. Opera conveniently distorted numbers to make these claims. For example:
Opera's market share : 20% iPhone browser : 17.5 iPod browser : 5.9%
Total iOS browser share: 23% this alone is higher than Opera (iPod and iPhone have the same browser. ). Total marketshare for WebKit based browsers is 65% (iOS + Nokia + Android+ Blackberry).
Marketshare numbers: http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_browser-ww-monthly-200912-201012
-Shamit