Stanford Wireless – The iPhone dominates

In a recent post on Miles Davis’ blog he reports the latest statistics of the wireless network of the Stanford Computer Science Department. The numbers are interesting to say the least. The Laptop market is split equally between Mac OS X and Windows. Both however are crushed by the iPhone which is also the fastest growing segment. Android which had not yet made a dent on last month’s statistics is slowly creeping up.

Operating system % Clients % Usage
1 Apple iPhone 37.4% 1.1%
2 Mac OS X 24.2% 40.5%
3 Windows Vista 15.8% 16.6%
4 Windows XP 10.7% 27.4%

For complete statistics visit his blog post here. Stanford is far from typical network. However it sometimes is a good leading indicator of things to come. That phones are becoming a major category on wireless networks (and eventually the majority) seems like a safe bet. How quickly it happened is amazing though. It has been 2.5 years since the iPhone was introduced).