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Jeff Campbell
06-29-2011, 06:18 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://electricpig.co.uk/2011/06/22/google-maps-and-ios-reign-supreme-in-uk-mobile-applications-usage/' target='_blank'>http://electricpig.co.uk/2011/06/22...ications-usage/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Ever wonder which apps drive the UK mobile market? GSMA and comScore have revealed that nearly 8.8 million UK mobile owners used an app that connected to the Internet during April 2011."</em></p><p><img height="219" src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/wpt/auto/1282771006.usr105634.jpg" style="margin-left: 90px; margin-right: 90px;" width="419" /></p><p>And the winner was Google Maps, with 6.4 million unique visitors. The surprise here was at 2nd place, which was Yahoo! Weather that finished with 3.6 million visitors. I would have thought Facebook would have been at least 2nd, but they had 3.5 million finishing in 3rd place. What kind of operating system did they use in the UK to connect? Well, iOS 65% of the time followed far back by Android at 31%. You can read the results yourself <a href="http://www.gsmworld.com/newsroom/press-releases/2011/6287.htm" target="_blank">right here</a>.&nbsp;</p>