Android web traffic has exceeded iOS web traffic for the first time in history in Q1 of 2014: Opera

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[url]http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2014/04/22/for-the-first-time-android-passes-apples-ios-mobile-ad-traffic-report/[/url]

[quote=Forbes]For years, the rise of Android seemed to put almost no dent in the massive proportion of mobile traffic generated by Apple's iPhones. Various theories held that despite their rapid sales, early Android phones weren’t as easy to use as iPhones, didn’t have the latest and greatest apps, or simply were bought and used by people who cared more about making phone calls and texting than using a lot of apps or roaming the mobile Web. As a result, advertisers preferred to direct ads to iPhone users.

Now, for the first time, Google's Android has passed Apple’s iOS in mobile ad traffic, according to a quarterly mobile advertising report released today by mobile ad network Opera Mediaworks. The switch in the first quarter suggests that Android smartphones and tablets such as Samsung’s and HTC's newer models are getting capable enough to challenge Apple’s iPhones and iPads. “With the Samsung [Galaxy] S4 and other newer Android phones, you’re seeing more parity in users,” says Opera Mediaworks CEO Mahi de Silva. As a result, he says, “the quality of the ads served on Android devices is also more at parity with iOS.”[/quote]

[Wayword]

Wow ur tellin me all the companies tat make android stuff finally use more tahn 1 company? Wtf

[SpeedyHeart]

android in my opinion has been easier to surf the web for along tme now. In ios only opera has access to some speedier things. On android the chrome browser is great and can view webpages as fast as my laptop and when you tap on small objects it zooms in and brings a circle so you can tap small things better

[Bee York]

Not really that surprising. I want to see GNU/Linux surpass OS X and Windows on the desktop.

[MR-X]

[QUOTE=Wayword;44617994]Wow ur tellin me all the companies tat make android stuff finally use more tahn 1 company? Wtf[/QUOTE]

Most Android builds are custom and have many variations. They're hardly cut and paste builds applied to everyphone.

When you think about how many Iphones have been made and how many in circulation even before android became big android never really had a chance at the beginning. But slowly it proved itself and a lot of apple users are switching.

[Map in a box]

Also apples atrocious policy where there can't be any custom browser engines

[Nehalem]

[QUOTE=Map in a box;44619128]Also apples atrocious policy where there can't be any custom browser engines[/QUOTE]

I think Opera Mobile on iOS used a different engine, not sure. Chrome for iOS definitely does, it's really easy to tell.

[Map in a box]

[QUOTE=Vault;44620933]I think Opera Mobile on iOS used a different engine, not sure. Chrome for iOS definitely does, it's really easy to tell.[/QUOTE]

No, no it doesn't.