Apple versus Android: mobile browser battle

This is quite interesting

With Android devices supposedly outselling Apple devices by a long way Mobile Safari is still the most used.

Does this mean people use there IOS devices four internet rather than there Android devices.
 
The changes in early May were the result of an update to the underlying Akamai IO database which reclassified several “other” browsers as Android Webkit.
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They corrected the data in May, what's to say that the data is correct today?

According IDC (and Strategy Analytics, Kantar, ComScore)
http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp
Android accounts for 84.7% of global mobile phones.
iOS accounts for 11.7% of global mobile phones.

There is a big difference between IDC numbers and Akamai.
I suspect that Akamai can't count (as they admitted in May).
 
system32 said:
They corrected the data in May, what's to say that the data is correct today?

According IDC (and Strategy Analytics, Kantar, ComScore)
http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp
Android accounts for 84.7% of global mobile phones.
iOS accounts for 11.7% of global mobile phones.

There is a big difference between IDC numbers and Akamai.
I suspect that Akamai can't count (as they admitted in May).
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Why does number of devices equate to usage?

All the analysis is saying is that iOS users browse a lot more than Android users (on average
 
This comparison is flawed. How many iOS users change the default browser to something other than Safari? Google doesn't even include the AOSP browser in their Nexus devices, either.

Would be interesting to see them compare Android browser usage as a whole, given that there are a plethora of popular options out there that can be set as default (Chrome, Dolphin, Firefox, Opera as examples).
 
killkom said:
This is quite interesting

With Android devices supposedly outselling Apple devices by a long way Mobile Safari is still the most used.

Does this mean people use there IOS devices four internet rather than there Android devices.
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You have to remember, many/most Android devices are quite cheap. You remember everyone had a cheap Nokia a few years ago. Those people have some kind of cheap android device now, and they aren't really "smart" users. They are the kind of people who "want a phone to make and receive calls" pretty much. So yes, android has a bigger market share, but the majority don't use the phone to its full extent.
 
Maverick Jester said:
This comparison is flawed. How many iOS users change the default browser to something other than Safari? Google doesn't even include the AOSP browser in their Nexus devices, either.

Would be interesting to see them compare Android browser usage as a whole, given that there are a plethora of popular options out there that can be set as default (Chrome, Dolphin, Firefox, Opera as examples).
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The user agent string contains the name of the operating system (unless for some reason the developer obscured it, but none of the popular browsers do.) so it doesn't really matter which browser you use.
 
how is it that in 2 days, 20% of the user base changes. I call BS on these stats.
 
I looked at mobile browser stats across 15 (small) websites, and my stats say something similar:

Desktops still have near 60% of sessions, and mobile just over 40%.

Of mobile, iOS has 46% Android 41%, BB 8% Windows 3%, Other 2%
 
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