I'm not surprised at all. The market trend report coverage generally runs at least nationwide, if not worldwide. An enormous amount of the worldwide Android adoption is due to non-US mobile device purchases. But locally, I see the majority of our mobile access coming from iPads and iPhones.
There have always been a lot of Apple device users in our user population. At the same time that most US websites were getting under 10% of their visits from Macs, we were getting 15 - 20%. It's increased since then. Our usage now looks like: 1. Windows 53.78% 2. Macintosh 30.42% 3. iOS 10.25% 4. Android 4.27% 5. Linux 0.58% 6. (not set) 0.52% 7. BlackBerry 0.08% 8. Windows Phone 0.04% General trends only go so far in telling you about your own audience. Genny Engel gen...@sonoma.lib.ca.us ________________________________________ From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Park,Go-Woon [gop...@nwmissouri.edu] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 1:23 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Mobile device usage (iOS vs. Android) I am wondering if any of you can share wisdom of interpreting the mobile device usage statistics. The market trends predict that the number of Android devices are exceeding iOS devices. In my campus, the visits using iOS devices are over 70% of total mobile usage. It is even up from over 65% last year. I feel odd with this unusually high number. Any thought? Sarah Park
