BlackBerry OS Beats iPhone for Mobile Internet, Says StatCounter

In November BlackBerry
OS overtook Apple's iPhone iOS - in terms of internet usage - for the first time in the U.S. according to StatCounter.  The company found that BlackBerry OS (at 34.3%) overtook Apple's iOS, which recorded 33% in November.

Google's Android is rapidly gaining and has almost tripled internet
market share from 8.2% last November to 23.8% this year.  Apple's
iOS has fallen from 51.9% to 33% over the same period.

"These figures suggest that developers should not be developing
solely for the iPhone to the exclusion of BlackBerry and
Android," commented Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter.  He added
that, if current trends continue, BlackBerry and Android combined
are on course to become twice the size of iOS as regards mobile
internet usage in the next year.

BlackBerry's U.S. lead is not replicated in terms of worldwide share
according to the StatCounter data.  Globally Symbian OS leads with
31.9% followed by iOS (21.9%), BlackBerry OS (19.3%), and Android
(11.6%).

StatCounter Global Stats are based on aggregate data collected by
StatCounter on a sample exceeding 15 billion page views per month
and collected from across the StatCounter network of more than three
million websites.