A new iPhone record

By on November 17, 2009 in News

On a tube train this morning I counted 17 people. 9 of whom were using an iPhone. I kid ye not. I counted.

Certainly not representative of the UK as a whole but indicative of the way things are going for London commuters.

I tried to take a snap of the iPhone user carriage, but an annoying woman kept glancing at me as I tried to get the right shot. She was doing that ‘terrorist’ frightened look at me. I reckon she was moments away from ‘being assertive’ so I put my phone down and started typing. She’s still giving me a panicked look.

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  • http://twitter.com/allaboutiphone All About iPhone UK

    Sure there weren't some iPod Touches in there? Even so, it still shows the penetration of the platform.

  • http://www.phonething.com/ Alex Kerr

    > but indicative of the way things are going for London commuters.

    What!? How!? As self-appointed 'Anti BS Czar For Mobile Statistics' ;-) I don't understand how you can possibly even begin to make this claim. I am all for world domination for the iPhone (sort of ;-) ), but please, let's have statistical and intellectual honesty here.

    If you made several hundred (though I'd feel more comfortable with several thousand) journeys, and your result in this tube carriage was the average across them all, then I'd be perfectly happy with your claim – for specifically London commuters on tube carriages.

    If you made several hundred journeys on London buses, people's cars, the tube, the overground railway, and the river boats, then, and only then, could you make the claim “but indicative of the way things are going for London commuters.”.

    Your iPhone/Android love is truly blinding you Ewan. I'm beginning to get the same feeling reading MIR these days as I did when I read the Sunday Sport edition where the front page said in all seriousness (with photo no less) “Elvis found living in a bus on the Moon”

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com Ewan

    I didn't use any stats there Alex, apart from an anecdotal observation on the train which is most definitely indicative of the way things are going for London commuters. I'm pretty sure that a lot of people will be nodding away. Just for you, I counted 11 iPhones (or, iPod Touches, as All About iPhone UK points out) in use on the tube back home today. (I reckon there were about 30 people in the carriage.)

    What's eating you Alex? Have you been reading my posts about the Vodafone 360 service? Do you think I'm blinded by that too? Further, do you think I'm blinded by my N900 'Maemo' love — because I've written more or less exactly the same *type* of posts about those and you didn't have an issue?

  • http://techmein.com/ Anand

    LOL…Don't people keep their phones inside their trouser pockets as they do it here? :P

  • sexygirl

    i went to a adult toy party last weekend, out of 50some women, 36 of them were using iphone, and 22 are iphone 3gs. i wonder if anyone with some kind of income is getting an iphone.

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  • jeffcliff

    Iphone is the like a fever in UK today. In London, I have noticed during the past few months that almost fifty percent people use Iphone. One of the most important reasons for its popularity is its exciting applications, just google the term Iphone apps you would find a lot of latest iphone app review which would guide you to have the app you need

  • jeffcliff

    Iphone is the like a fever in UK today. In London, I have noticed during the past few months that almost fifty percent people use Iphone. One of the most important reasons for its popularity is its exciting applications, just google the term Iphone apps you would find a lot of latest iphone app review which would guide you to have the app you need

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