Users of smartphones and tablets with Android operating system in July for the first time ahead of the total amount of Internet traffic owners iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Forbes writes about it, citing a study NetApplications.
According to the monitoring service, the share of Android now accounts for 44.62% of mobile traffic, the operating system for Apple figure below - 44.19%. The graph shows that in June, iOS was leading by a margin of almost 2%, but in July the share of the mobile platform Google rose nearly 1%, while iOS competitors yielded about 1.5% of its traffic.
Android's share in the global mobile traffic in recent years, growing steadily. According to the earliest observations Netmarketshare, in August 2012 for such gadgets accounted for only about 21% of traffic at 66% for iOS.
Due to the large variety of cheap models, Android-devices captured the world leader in terms of sales, but in fact more active on the Internet until recently invariably own iPhone and iPad.
Meanwhile, analysts found that owners of iOS-devices to seven times more active users of Android. According to Strategy Analytics, in the II quarter of 2014 the share of gadgets based on Android accounted for 85% of all deliveries. At Apple, the figure is 12%.
In Netmarketshare say that iOS can regain the lead in terms of traffic after Apple will introduce a new flagship smartphone iPhone 6.