Comments on: BlackBerry steady as Android and iOS slide in mobile web usage

By: Novay Jose

Novay Jose — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 03:29:00 +0000

Curiously enough, newer BlackBerrys (BB6 or BB7) are often mis-identified as iOS (because of their WekKit based browser). Older BlackBerrys (BB5, where everything was Java) are often identified as “Java ME”.

By: JohnJohnJ

JohnJohnJ — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:39:00 +0000

Author, cooked data or the data is structured to represent what one wants it to? Something just isn’t right here.

By: jhdale

jhdale — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:40:00 +0000

The plot shows an almost exact mirroring of the iOS and Java ME data. As if iOS + Java ME web browser usage was constant at 75% but the balance between the two moved back and forth, but their total was not affected by changes in Android, Blackberry, etc. I am suspicious of that. Why would iOS devices be so closely related to Java ME? I could see some relation but it is precise.

October 2011 is an interesting blip on the chart. What happened that month that boosted iOS so much, and dropped Java ME by the same amount? I would discount any one-month outlier unless it is possible to verify it represents something real. Ignore it and iOS is on a long-term growth trend (up from about 50 to about 60%).

Over the course of the graph, Blackberry dropped from 3.24 to 2.21%. That is not holding steady, that is a relative decline of more than 30%.