The fact that Android dominates global mobile phone sales does not mean that Google dominates the mobile market. For example, the biggest market for Android pho

The fact that Android dominates global mobile phone sales does not mean that Google dominates the mobile market. For example, the biggest market for Android phones is in China - and yet the great majority of these phones have Baidu as the default search engine and do not ship with Google Play services. How can Google be said to own this market? But device sales are not even the relevant question - web traffic is. And there, iOS and Android appear about even. For example, see Wikipedia's hits [1]: iOS across mobile and tablet is about 34 billion hits per year, compared to 33.5 for Android. And that's before we even get to the notion of influence. iOS 8 adoption is at 73%, Android 5.0 is at 1.6%. Apple evidently has far more influence over iOS users than Google does over Android users. That means that Apple's adoption of a mobile web standard will have a much greater impact. [1]: https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClients.htm https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClie...