I'd hardly take the analytics numbers from mobile web browsers on an Apple-focused blog as substantial evidence in any way, shape, or form. Here's the numbers

I'd hardly take the analytics numbers from mobile web browsers on an Apple-focused blog as substantial evidence in any way, shape, or form. Here's the numbers I come up with. According to Google, 1.8% of current Android devices that are activated and have accessed the Android Market in the last 2 weeks are running Honeycomb (their tablet OS). In July they were up to 130 million total activations, with 550,000 new ones every day. Assuming that number hasn't grown at all (which is being extremely conservative considering that number shot up from 400,000 only 2 months prior), that would put the number of active Android devices around 180,000,000. That puts the current number of Android tablets that are sold and active on the Android Market at over 3 million. Apple's numbers look to be about 30 million iPads. Assuming that Apple and Google are the only players in this market (hint: they're not), then that puts Android at around 10% of the tablet market. Still dominated by the iPad, yes, but at least these numbers have weight to them. It'll be interesting to see how this pans out over the next 8-12 months. The iPhone having real competition served to improve the entire smartphone market all around. Hopefully we've only begun to see what tablets can do.