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Wait, what? The whole premise is completely and utterly false? http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201112-201212 http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_

by RyanZAG 14y ago

Wait, what? The whole premise is completely and utterly false? http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201112-201212 http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201112-20121... Android: 33% iOS: 23% That is a major difference in favor of Android. Why write a blog post without even checking the data?!

smackfu 14y ago
iOS still has a clear lead in North America.
- RyanZAG 14y ago
  And Android has a clear lead in China, the biggest market. These stats also largely mirror the distribution of Android phone purchases. What's your point? http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201212-201301-map http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201212-20130... Worldwide, Android still leads by 10% in web browsing.
  - enraged_camel 14y ago
    As multiple people have pointed out, the reason Android "leads" by 10% in web browsing (especially in China) is because there are a ridiculous number of cheap Android phones out there, leading to a larger amount of total traffic from Android. To really understand what the OP is talking about, you need to think in terms of per capita browsing in iOS and Android. In other words, how much web browsing does your average iOS user do, vs your average Android user? That is really what matters.
- calciphus 14y ago
  Based on whose stats?
micheljansen 14y ago
Yes, but those are absolute usage numbers. There is 1.43 times as much traffic coming from Android devices as there is from iOS. However, there are far more Android devices shipped than iOS devices, so they browse relatively less: http://www.asymco.com/2012/11/05/the-late-smartphone-adopter-paradox/ http://www.asymco.com/2012/11/05/the-late-smartphone-adopter... On top of that, the Statcounter numbers also include tablets, so smart phone only numbers would look very different. Android tablet usage is a fraction of iPad usage (source: stats of a European site with 100M+ monthly visitors). For smartphones, it's more like Android 35% iOS 57%.
- RyanZAG 14y ago
  Your numbers do not make sense. If Android's 33% and iOS's 23% include tablets and we remove tablets, then Android's numbers will not decrease much. As you have said, there are fewer Android tablets than iOS tablets. So removing tablets would increase the relative market share of Android and not reduce it. So if you remove tablets, you would not expect "Android 35% iOS 57%", but would instead expect something like Android 43% iOS 13% (numbers made up). EDIT: Also following the trend, it is clear that more and more people are using Android for web browsing every week. This implies that the 40%+ more Android web usage will quickly increase. EDIT2: The issue of tablets is irrelevant to statcounter's stats, as the iPad and other android tablets are not included. Leaving the comment above as it is still technically correct if the post above were to be correct... http://blog.chron.com/techblog/2012/07/whos-ahead-in-mobile-and-browsers-depends-on-who-you-ask/ http://blog.chron.com/techblog/2012/07/whos-ahead-in-mobile-... (comment by StatCounterGS half way down the page)
  - micheljansen 14y ago
    You are right, I said the reverse of what I meant to say w.r.t. tablet numbers there. Those numbers were real though (measured in the UK over the past month, phones only). My main point though, was that there are far more Android phones than there are iPhones, so even though there is more Android browser traffic, the average Android user will browse less (but that's mostly because there are so many low-end Android devices that water down the browsing habits of high-end users on shiny Galaxies and Nexuses).

by RyanZAG 14y ago

smackfu 14y ago

iOS still has a clear lead in North America.

RyanZAG 14y ago
And Android has a clear lead in China, the biggest market. These stats also largely mirror the distribution of Android phone purchases. What's your point? http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201212-201301-map http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201212-20130... Worldwide, Android still leads by 10% in web browsing.
- enraged_camel 14y ago
  As multiple people have pointed out, the reason Android "leads" by 10% in web browsing (especially in China) is because there are a ridiculous number of cheap Android phones out there, leading to a larger amount of total traffic from Android. To really understand what the OP is talking about, you need to think in terms of per capita browsing in iOS and Android. In other words, how much web browsing does your average iOS user do, vs your average Android user? That is really what matters.
calciphus 14y ago
Based on whose stats?

micheljansen 14y ago

Yes, but those are absolute usage numbers. There is 1.43 times as much traffic coming from Android devices as there is from iOS. However, there are far more Android devices shipped than iOS devices, so they browse relatively less: http://www.asymco.com/2012/11/05/the-late-smartphone-adopter-paradox/ http://www.asymco.com/2012/11/05/the-late-smartphone-adopter... On top of that, the Statcounter numbers also include tablets, so smart phone only numbers would look very different. Android tablet usage is a fraction of iPad usage (source: stats of a European site with 100M+ monthly visitors). For smartphones, it's more like Android 35% iOS 57%.

RyanZAG 14y ago
Your numbers do not make sense. If Android's 33% and iOS's 23% include tablets and we remove tablets, then Android's numbers will not decrease much. As you have said, there are fewer Android tablets than iOS tablets. So removing tablets would increase the relative market share of Android and not reduce it. So if you remove tablets, you would not expect "Android 35% iOS 57%", but would instead expect something like Android 43% iOS 13% (numbers made up). EDIT: Also following the trend, it is clear that more and more people are using Android for web browsing every week. This implies that the 40%+ more Android web usage will quickly increase. EDIT2: The issue of tablets is irrelevant to statcounter's stats, as the iPad and other android tablets are not included. Leaving the comment above as it is still technically correct if the post above were to be correct... http://blog.chron.com/techblog/2012/07/whos-ahead-in-mobile-and-browsers-depends-on-who-you-ask/ http://blog.chron.com/techblog/2012/07/whos-ahead-in-mobile-... (comment by StatCounterGS half way down the page)
- micheljansen 14y ago
  You are right, I said the reverse of what I meant to say w.r.t. tablet numbers there. Those numbers were real though (measured in the UK over the past month, phones only). My main point though, was that there are far more Android phones than there are iPhones, so even though there is more Android browser traffic, the average Android user will browse less (but that's mostly because there are so many low-end Android devices that water down the browsing habits of high-end users on shiny Galaxies and Nexuses).