Android web traffic contribution is about to exceed iOS

Although the Android system has surpassed iOS in monthly global smartphone shipments globally, iOS devices rank the first place in terms of network data traffic. Knowing network traffic contribution is also an important factor in measuring device popularity. However, according to the latest situation, this stalemate between Android and iOS may have significant changes in the coming months.

Android and iOS traffic is nearing

According to Net Applications latest statistics released in June this year, the global network traffic report shows that iOS network traffic has been declining in recent months, while the Android platform is on the rise, and will produce the first time in a couple of months over iOS system.

Statistics from the statistics, the Android system (including smart phones and tablets) global network traffic utilization from 37.75% in April to 41.58% in May to 43.75% this month, showing a strong upward trend can be predicted at The rise will continue in the coming months. At the same time, the global utilization of iOS system is declining, dropping from 51.11% in May to 48.34% and the global traffic in this month dropped to 45.61%. In accordance with this development step between the two will further narrow the gap between the last month's gap of only 1.86%, the next few months will be expected to surpass the Android system.

This time last year, iOS data usage is much higher than the Android system. Apple's mobile operating system accounts for 57.56% of global network traffic, while Android is 24.66%. Two years ago, the network traffic for iOS and Android was 65.27 %% and 19.73%, respectively. In 2009, iOS has 39.02% and Android only 2.59%, then the Symbian system once occupied 16.84%. As for why the blackberry system network traffic is always low, even in 2009 when it is still the case, this is because most manufacturers of mobile phones are used for e-mail, text messages and other news. At that time, BlackBerry browser is relatively poor, people who used BlackBerry certainly understand.

According to the growth trend in recent years, the Android system is likely to surpass iOS in the future and become the largest smartphone operating system in the world. With Google and Apple have introduced the latest Android L and iOS 8, I believe the two technology giants in the field of mobile operating system competition, will continue to fierce.