Everything iPad

So, the iPad was released over the weekend. And, we imagine that of the 300,000 units sold, a few of those were being used for some heavy web browsing. After all, part of that tablet’s incredible features is a super-fast mobile Safari browser, so why wouldn’t you want to go spelunking through the Internet? Trouble is, it seems that according to Clicky (which runs web analytics for over 200,000 websites), the iPad isn’t really all that great for taking to work, whatever your job may be. So, as a fall back, people are going back to their iPhones today.

There’s a big stipulation to this analysis, of course. The iPad has just been released, coincidentally over a weekend, and it’s only the WiFi model. Unfortunately, not everyone out there has a mobile hotspot in their pocket, so perhaps taking the WiFi-only model everywhere they go just doesn’t seem practical. However, the report does do well to show that, if these trends do continue up until the release, or well past the release of the 3G+WiFi iPad, then it seems the iPad is not being removed from the home.

Perhaps that’s what Apple intended, but we imagine that they’re hoping the tablet sees more daylight than these reports are showing. As we just mentioned though, we imagine that once the new “everywhere” model hits, we’ll see the percentages increase in their own way. As it stands right now, the iPad accounted for 4.62 percent of all web browsing over the weekend, while the iPhone declined two points, and landed at 46.5 percent. Today though, the start of the work week (for most), the iPhone increased to 48.6 percent, and the iPad dropped to 2.6 percent. Again, we’ll have to wait and see what happens in the coming weeks, and with the launch of the new model. We’ll keep you posted.

[via Clicky]