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This is ridiculous, if I'm reading it right. For one thing, the carrier I currently use (AT&T), forces you to buy a data plan if you have a smartphone. I'd be
by drcube 14y ago
This is ridiculous, if I'm reading it right.
For one thing, the carrier I currently use (AT&T), forces you to buy a data plan if you have a smartphone. I'd be surprised if this wasn't the case for all carriers. So that blows the conclusion out of the water.
But why ask the question in the first place? Because the Android browser market share is so much lower than the Android market share as a whole? I would presume that "browser share" comes from the web, which can be accessed by all sorts of devices, and "mobile market share" comes just from mobile devices. That alone probably makes the question moot. But even if it didn't, there's Opera, Firefox, Chrome and all sorts of other browsers on Android that could make up the gap.
In other words, I doubt the premise (Android users surf the web less) as well as the conclusion (this is due to most Android users being too price averse to use data). I just don't see any evidence of either.
- thoughtsimple 14y agoI have a data plan on an iPhone with AT&T and I pay an additional $15 over the standard 450 minute plan for 200 MB of data. I understand that AT&T has raised this minimum to $20 for 300 MB. That price won't break the bank for most people but 200-300 MB for a month of data isn't much. I'm generally on WiFi so I don't care but I suspect that many people would find this too small for comfort. If they don't care about surfing from the phone, I can see people just avoiding using any data at all so that they don't have to worry about additional fees.
- short_circut 14y agoThat is exactly the reason I rarely use my phone for browsing. The internet is just too expensive.
- re_todd 14y agoI'm with AT&T and went to the $15/month a couple years ago (don't know if the price went up, I'm on someone else's contract and I've never actually seen the bill). It's a pain to worry about bandwidth, and video is out of the question. Yes, WiFi bandwidth is free, but sometimes I forget to turn on WiFi, then almost have a heart attack when I see how much bandwidth I've consumed (thanks to the "3G Watchdog" app). It's just significantly less stressful to put the android phone down on my desk and just surf on my desktop or laptop on my Cable connection.
- dave1010uk 14y ago1. These stats are worldwide. I believe the US phone market isn't very representative and most phone contracts sold last year did not come with lots of inclusive data. 2. These stats are just for mobile devices.