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The iPhone, Now With Nearly 50% Of Worldwide Market Share

AdMob has released new data that give us a good and interesting overview about what’s really going on in the smartphone market.

It turns out that Apple’s iPhone in its 3 current models (yeah, there are still some people who use the first generation one, 2% of the whole iPhone OS distribution) is accounted for 46% of worldwide OS market share, 47% of device market share.

Also, 9to5mac reports:

“iPhone 3GS traffic share has increased from 30 percent in September 2009 to 39 percent in March 2010. The 1st Generation iPhone only generated 2 percent of iPhone OS requests in March 2010.

The two most recent versions of the iPhone OS generate 86% of the traffic. In March 2010, 44% of iPhone OS traffic came from devices running iPhone OS 3.1.3 and 42% from iPhone OS 3.1.2.”

We can’t wait to take a look at these stats in a couple of months, when iPhone OS 4.0 will be out.

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