Telecom Lead America: Apple has dislodged Nokia in terms of global internet usage.
This is for the first time that the devices major Apple has become the most popular mobile vendor in global internet usage.
According to mobile research from StatCounter, a website analytics company, Samsung also climbed ahead of Nokia to take second place behind Apple on a worldwide basis.
In India, Nokia leads the market with 52.1 percent share.
The second largest mobile vendor in India is Samsung with 26.8 percent share.
In January 2013 Apple led globally for the first time in terms of internet usage with 25.86 percent, ahead of Samsung (22.69 percent) and Nokia (22.15 percent).
Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter, said: “Apple has been handed the number one spot despite its falling usage share. A decline in Nokia usage from January 2012 to January 2013 means the Finnish company ceded the top spot to Apple.”
Samsung, in contrast to Apple, has seen an increase in its usage share since January 2012.
According to StatCounter data, Apple’s worldwide internet usage share fell from 28.67 percent in January 2012 to 25.86 percent in the same month this year.
Samsung rose from 14.84 percent to 22.69 percent over the same period. Nokia fell from 37.67 percent to 22.15 percent.
| Jan 2012 | Jan 2013 | Change | |||||
| Nokia | 37.67% | 22.15% | -15.52% | ||||
| Apple | 28.67% | 25.86% | – 2.81% | ||||
| Samsung | 14.84% | 22.69% | + 7.85% |
StatCounter Global Stats data is based on over 15 billion page views per month to the StatCounter network of more than three million websites.
