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Exclusive: Droid Grabs 1.44% Market Share

By Alex Wilhelm
November 11, 2009
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Clicky Web Analytics, maker of excellent website statistics that we use here at TheNextWeb, has begun tracking Droid browser market share among all browser enabled phones. Result: 1.44% so far.

Clicky is tracking data for iPhone, greater Android, and the very new Droid:

droid market shqare

As you can see, the 1.44% number only applies to US browser enabled smart smartphones. For the moment, we are unsure what that translates to globally. However, given that Android’s global market share is 58% as large as its US footprint (according to the numbers), we can guesstimate that Droid has around a 0.84 percent global market share of browser enabled phones.

Of course, this data is quite new, but Droid is making a very strong showing for such a young phone. Perhaps those physical keyboards are bringing in more purchases than we had thought?

As Clicky tracks more and more data, we will continue to monitor the situation. Anyone want to put a guess out on when, if ever, Droid will grab 5%?

The data is accumulated from across all 150,000 websites that Clicky tracks, so it represents a large enough sample size of global websites to be meaningful, and accurate.

Disclosure: I worked for Clicky briefly in 2008.


  • I am tempted here, my iPhone first gen is ghetto as hell.


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  • Anonymous
    Do it!!! Best switch I ever made! I love it. Seriously.

  • Plus ATT would be insane not to pay Apple a shit load of money to keep them. I know I would move my iPhone over to Verizon. The iPhone is what put a spark in ATT’s service.


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  • Steve
    You can get the droid for att if you buy an unlocked euro version that has umts

  • Is that 1.44% included in the Android 6.14%? If not, why separate?


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  • Anonymous
    Because they are desperately trying to make droid something different and separate for marketing reasons ultimately leading to massive fragmentation and the fail of what should have been the greatest platform ever.

  • Ugh. But Verizon’s plans are soooo much more expensive. Am I really going to like the Droid $45 per month more than the Palm Pre? Any former Palm Pre users out there have some opinions on how they justify the much higher monthly cost for the extra bells and whistles of the Droid?


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  • Steve
    get a eruo version of the droid an you can put it on att it's not called the droid in europe though
  • Droid is an okay phone. It's no iPhone killer.
  • Wayno
    look. there's no droid phone period without the iphone. Droid is an ok imitation, but you miss the bigger picture by not understanding that apple's software, specifically itunes, app store, etc., is the key to the success of the iphone. After using the iphone since the first day they became available,... i can honestly say that there has never been a device that i have used more regularly and with greater enjoyment than the iphone. it is my internet research tool, my email, my music player, my movie device, my GPS, my poker partner, my phone, and on and on. And a complete pleasure to use every time i pick it up. It has replaced 4 devices that i used to carry with me.
  • There are lots of reasons why Android phones are better than the iphone.
    http://tiny.cc/htchero
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