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The Future's Mobile
Interesting news from Google. According to the FT, the search engine giant has seen 50 times more searches on Apple‘s iPhone than any other mobile handset.
50 times. Seth Weintraub explains that this isn't hugely surprising, given the iPhone's web-friendly nature. iPhone comes with a forfait which encourages portable web use, plus its browser is far and away the best of any handheld device.
France's Prime Minister is a fan: Here's the "branché" François Fillon unplugged in his office, showing off his new toy.
As for Google, the company believes that if other mobile companies follow Apple's lead and make internet use easy (and cheap), the number of mobile searches will overtake fixed internet searches “within the next several years”.
Google makes money from searches by displaying advertising alongside results: Increased growth in the handheld sector means more revenue for Google, which claims that revenue from mobile phones is "above expectations."
