Owners of iPhone most eager to recommend their phones

2nd March, 2010 by adina
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It seems iPhone and iPod owners are the most inclined to recommend their devices to friends, as latest researches reveal. A high number of iPhone users, about 91 percent, and 88 percent of iPod touch owners would gladly tell their friends to buy such devices, as January information says. At the same time, only 84 percent of Android phone users would recommend their devices, while only 69 percent of Palm Pre or Pixi owners would do the same.

No matter what their preference for a particular platform is, there is a wide variation of the desire to get a different device. Owners of Apple devices would more likely want to buy an iPhone or an iPod, while only 6 percent of Android, iPhone or iPod users would want an Amazon Kindle. Persons using Android are significantly less eager to want any Apple device, no more than 12 percent aiming to buy an iPod touch.

A split occurs when it comes to application purchasing habits, where iPod owners are the most active, with an average 12.1 applications downloaded every month, 1.6 of them being paid. Android and iPhone users come shoulder-to-shoulder with a total of 8.7 to 8.8 applications per month. The small size of Palm App Catalog affects webOS users who have an average of only 5.7 applications downloaded monthly. Owners of iPhones are more inclined to get paid applications than Android and webOS users, with an average of 1.8 applications versus 1.1 and 0.6 for the latter.

As for usage share, there is a slight drop for Apple in December, to 50 percent worldwide. The successful campaign for the Motorola Droid has boosted Android share to 21 percent and simultaneously pushed Symbian down to 19 percent. Devices like the Droid, the Cliq and Droid Eris helped a lot Android in the United States, where it has already reached 39 percent of the mobile traffic. In other countries, most share remains stable or even slightly positive for Apple, and this is happening particularly in the United Kingdom, where Apple has an impressive 79 percent usage share, while Android has only 10 percent and Symbian no more than 7 percent.


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