AdMob Metrics - the iPhone OS had 8 percent of the Smartphone market, but generated 43 percent of mobile Web requests and 65 percent of HTML usage. By comparison, Blackberry owns 17% of the market but only drives 9% of mobile Web requests.

"We believe that between 90,000 units and 100,000 Palm Pre's were sold in the first week," Pacific Crest Securities analyst James Faucette said. "The company appears to be on track to exceed our previous August quarter unit shipment estimate of 500,000."

Blockbuster device: the iPhone grabbed 28% market share in its first 8 months on the market and become the most popular way to access the mobile web

According J.D. Power and Associates' second annual survey of almost 1400 Smartphone users, the Apple iPhone ranks highest in customer satisfaction among business users.

Yankee Group's "Consumerization at Work: The iPhone in the Enterprise is Inevitable," reports that "as mobility scales through the organization in the form of increased mobile workers and mobile applications, enterprises require a more strategic framework to unify disparate solutions and layer adequate corporate policy."

Apple enjoyed its best sales during the fourth quarter of 2008--6.9 million shipments--when it released its iPhone 3G. The company sold 3.8 million iPhones in its most recent quarter.

The challenge with iPhone 3G S is "that you don't have a console to enforce corporate policies across an entire group of workers." Kevin Burden, Analyst, ABI Research.

Last April, Apple delivered its 1 Billionth application download from the App Store, which currently features over 25,000 apps. It took Apple only nine months from when the App Store launched on iTunes to hit 1 billion paid and unpaid downloads.