{"id":545994,"date":"2010-04-28T12:39:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T16:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=116645"},"modified":"2010-04-28T12:39:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T16:39:04","slug":"iphone-owners-downloading-opera-mini-but-are-they-using-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/545994","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Owners Downloading Opera Mini, But Are They Using It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/opera-mini-iphone-thumb1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  title=\"opera-mini-iphone-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/gigaom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/opera-mini-iphone-thumb1.png?w=210&#038;h=140\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"140\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-116685\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\/press\/releases\/2010\/04\/28\/\">Opera today shared a preview<\/a> of its next &#8220;State of the Mobile Web&#8221; report, which focuses on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\/mobile\/\">Opera Mini for iPhone<\/a>, the app that &#8212; to the surprise of many &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/theappleblog.com\/2010\/04\/13\/opera-mini-brings-choice-to-the-app-store\/\">was approved<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/theappleblog.com\/2010\/04\/13\/opera-mini-brings-choice-to-the-app-store\/\"> by Apple for inclusion in its App Store earlier this month<\/a>. According to Opera, iPhone users are indeed downloading the app &#8212; but are they using it?<\/p>\n<p>For while <a href=\"http:\/\/theappleblog.com\/2010\/04\/16\/opera-mini-on-the-iphone-nice-toy-could-it-ever-be-more\/\">Apple greenlighted the app, it won&#8217;t allow users to set Opera Mini as a default browser<\/a>. And based on the limited preview numbers provided by Opera, it appears that while Opera Mini is finding its way to iPhones, iPhone users aren&#8217;t finding their to the way to the web through Opera Mini.<\/p>\n<p>According to a preview of the report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The iPhone is currently the No. 3 device used by Opera Mini users worldwide; the other top 20 devices are all Nokia and Sony Ericsson handsets.<\/li>\n<li>The iPhone is currently the No. 1 device used by Opera Mini users in the U.S., well ahead of BlackBerry (which previously occupied the top spot).<\/li>\n<li>By mid-April, due to the iPhone launch, the U.S. jumped to No. 5 from No. 8 in the top 10 countries list.<\/li>\n<li> Beyond the top 10 countries, Australia, Korea, Canada, Germany and Japan are other examples of places where the iPhone has become the device of choice for Opera Mini users.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That all sounds good &#8212; but is it the result of users finding Opera Mini to be better than Safari, or a reaction to an alternative browser landing on\u00a0a highly popular phone? Obviously we&#8217;ll have to see the full report to answer that question, but Opera does share some additional global information in today&#8217;s preview statement by supplying the top 10 handsets of unique users, downloads and page views per user for Opera Mini.<\/p>\n<p>Nowhere is the iPhone mentioned in the Opera Mini global numbers, although I fully expected it would be after reading the iPhone-specific data points. Instead, the global usage numbers are dominated by handsets from Nokia and Sony\u00a0Ericsson. In fact, two specific Opera statements appear contradictory &#8212; how can the iPhone be the No. 3 device &#8220;used by Opera Mini users worldwide&#8221; and not appear in the top 10 handsets for Opera Mini unique users list? Perhaps it&#8217;s that &#8220;unique users&#8221; qualifier, that in fact only a relatively few iPhone users are accounting for total Opera Mini use on Apple&#8217;s handset.<\/p>\n<p>Even stranger to me is that the iPhone is a singular platform as compared to all of the other global handsets mentioned &#8212; put another way: a popular device with essentially one model should compete well in a market fractured by so many different handsets. I realize that Nokia has the strongest\u00a0presence\u00a0worldwide &#8212; the data should and does reflect that. But the iPhone not showing up in the top 10 handsets <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/04\/13\/opera-mini-iphone\/\">lends credence to what I thought would happen<\/a>: iPhone owners may be installing Opera Mini, but for most of them, Safari will still rule the roost.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related content on GigaOM Pro (subscription required):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/2010\/04\/q1-2010-mobile-overview\/\">Mobile Market Overview, Q1 2010<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/2009\/11\/what-does-the-future-hold-for-browsers\/\">What Does the Future Hold for Browsers?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/2010\/03\/why-feature-phones-are-the-new-black-for-mobile-apps\/\">Why Feature Phones Are the New Black for Mobile App<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=gigaom.com&#038;blog=1149864&#038;post=116645&#038;subd=gigaom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=e4DoUNJbvZc:KDfNzN5s65E:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=e4DoUNJbvZc:KDfNzN5s65E:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=e4DoUNJbvZc:KDfNzN5s65E:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=e4DoUNJbvZc:KDfNzN5s65E:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=e4DoUNJbvZc:KDfNzN5s65E:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=e4DoUNJbvZc:KDfNzN5s65E:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=e4DoUNJbvZc:KDfNzN5s65E:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=e4DoUNJbvZc:KDfNzN5s65E:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OmMalik\/~4\/e4DoUNJbvZc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opera today shared a preview of its next &#8220;State of the Mobile Web&#8221; report, which focuses on Opera Mini for iPhone, the app that &#8212; to the surprise of many &#8212; was approved by Apple for inclusion in its App Store earlier this month. 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