Ten months on a paid subscription site

Chart based on unique userid (not IP addresses or pages)

Over the ten months, subscriber mobile visits to this site doubled

from 10% to 20% of all subscriber visits

We can still call the iPad evolution a "dramatic rise". Is anyone still wondering about whether tablets willbe a success?

BlackBerry's gradual decline

Android slowly rising, but we can expect dramatic changes over the next year with all the new tablets that should be available over that period.

This is calculated from visits to a  web site.

All the pundits got a big laugh, but the funny name hasn't squelched enthusiasm, adoption of the iPad continues to rise significantly. It'll be very interesting to see when competitive tables come out how they compare.

The BlackBerry Torch hasn't been out long enough to guess whether it matters, but the continued dropping of the BB market share seems an established trend.

What caused the little upward spurt on the iPhone in October?

Symbian has dropped from almost no one to 1 user this month. Are there many Symbian-powered phones that surf the web well?

• The iPad continues its impressive climb.
• The iPhone continues to progress, but slower than the iPad.In fact, in Sept, iPhone lost a few.
• Android has begun to move up.
• BlackBerry keeps falling.
• Symbian is barely perceptible

Methodology

Only logged in members of the site are counted. The user_agent for the above device families are counted and regardless of the number of pages viewed, each member device is counted only once. Next step would be to count how many pages each device is looking at. Stay tuned.

Demographics

The sample site is used by people mostly over 45 years of age with a strong discretionary budget. This is particularly interesting in light of the iPad's dramatic progression and the BlackBerry's steady fall. Let's see what happens with BlackBerry's new and exciting models in the next few months.

 

Measured on a subscription site (not IP-based, individual user-based).
iPad is the fastest growing device. Still some iPhone growth.
BlackBerry stagnating.
Symbian and Android still minimal.

Mobile usage on membership site, February-June 2010

Each member has an identifiable tag in the log, so if he/she is using an iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, Android or Symbian device, we count that member ONCE. What jumps out right away is the hockey stick relatively steep rise of the iPad. Next, the BlackBerry lacks growth. Symbian is marginal and Android is growing, although on this site, not many are using it.

Note, I first published a porrly skewed verision of the graph using a type I didn't understand. The above graph gives the proper proportions.

It will be interesting to see if the iPhone rises again with the release of the new generation.

Sample of 1770  registered (and therefore uniquely identifiable) visitors to the membership wine information site, here is the breakdown for the first 11 days of April:

Mobiles represented 8% of all member accesses.

iPhone to BlackBerry, three to one.

iPhone        64.38%
BlackBerry       21.23%

At nearly 5%,; Android has grown quickly in the last 90 days.

Android        4.79%
iPod        3.42%
iPad        2.05%
Symbian        2.05%
webOS        1.37%
Nexus        0.68% (included in Android)

 

Comparing March 1-9 to April 1-9, Android gained 50%, BlackBerry +8%, iPhone lost 11%.

I'm looking at data from server logs from Jan 1, 2009 to Sept 22, 2009 and I was surprised to see these percentages:

iPhone	87
iPod	5
Symbian OS	4
BlackBerry	1
Android	1
PalmOS	1

So in this space, Apple seems to have come a long way from being "Apple Computers" to "Apple" the people who, love them or hate them, invented a very popular new mobile platform.